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Going Home is a 1971 drama directed by Herbert B. Leonard and written by Lawrence B. Marcus. The film stars Robert Mitchum as a man on parole after serving 15 years for the drunken murder of his wife, who tries to start a new life while coping with the presence of his nearly adult son, who witnessed the murder as a child.

Synopsis
Harry Graham (Robert Mitchum) is on parole after serving 15 years in prison for the murder of his wife while in a drunken rage. He is trying to start a new life in a rundown seaside community, sharing a trailer with his girlfriend Jenny Benson (Brenda Vaccaro), when he is visited by his son, Jimmy Graham (Jan-Michael Vincent), who witnessed the murder as a small child and is now nearly a full adult. Harry is torn between his lingering guilt over the murder and his wish to begin again. Jimmy manages to keep his buried rage well hidden, but he acts in ways that suggest he is planning some kind of revenge. Though there is some attraction between Jimmy and Jenny, who is much younger than Harry, she remains loyal even when Jimmy bad-mouths his father and discloses his crime. When, in a fit of rage, Jimmy rapes her, Jenny elects to keep silent. Jimmy finally confesses his crime to Harry, who nearly kills him in the ensuing brawl. Recognizing they both have a capacity for violence, and inspired by Jenny's willingness to forgive the assault, Harry leaves Jimmy to make his own way in the world.