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Home Is Where Your Heart Is (2017)

Axel is Dutch Surinamese, but after 20 years of living in the Netherlands he has become 100% Dutch. He has married a Dutch girl, Victoria, and has never been back. When his free-spirited mother Gladys summons the family to her guesthouse in Surinam for Christmas and an important announcement, Axel, his wife and her sister Mirna reluctantly make the journey. They have barely arrived when the situation gets completely out of hand, with his brother Virgil winding him up and his daughter Wonnie, who is doing an internship in Paramaribo, admitting that she is pregnant...

Romance
Drama

Top billed cast

Edwin JonkerVirgil
Leo AlkemadeAxel
Fockeline OuwerkerkVictoria
Sanne VogelMirna
Sanne LangelaarShirley
Sergio Romero IJsselMichael
Pip PellensWonnie
Juvat WestendorpMariano
Beppie MelissenGladys
Jetty MathurinGiovanca

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