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Like a House on Fire

Like a House on Fire

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Two years after leaving her family, Dara returns home to find that her daughter does not remember her, and that her husband is with a woman seven months pregnant. In an attempt to reconnect with her daughter and husband, Dara realizes that she must confront her own mother, who abandoned her as a baby.

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The Film Stage by Jared Mobarak

Anxiety is high at the start of Jesse Noah Klein’s Like a House on Fire.

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Film Threat by Alex Saveliev

Klein’s decision to pull a Kramer vs. Kramer and provide his heroine with next-to-no discernible rationale for bailing on her family both pays off and becomes a minor hindrance.