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Bessie Wheaton returns from Europe to find her nouveau riche family has adopted and magnified the worst characteristics of the upper class. Her father spends all of his time at the club, her mother cultivates snobbishness, and her sister thinks only of marrying into royalty. To shake them out of their aristocratic poses, Bessie decides to reflect all of their faults, becoming as lazy as her father and as status conscious as her mother. She even rejects her own sweetheart, Allan Shelby, to lure Count d'Orr away from her sister. Finally, the members of the family confront Bessie, and she angrily tells them that she was only mirroring their behavior. Bessie then runs away, but Allan, with whom she quickly reconciles, brings her back, just as her family acknowledges its recent burlesque of the upper crust.
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Plot Summary
This silent short film, unfortunately, has a lost plot summary due to its age and limited available information. Its categorization as a drama suggests a focus on emotional conflict or character development, likely within a constrained narrative typical of early short films.
Critical Reception
As a silent film from 1916, 'Home' lacks modern critical reviews or audience reception data. Its historical significance, if any, is likely confined to film archives or specialized academic discussions on early cinema, with no widespread public reception available.
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Information not available for this early short film.
Contemporary reviews are exceedingly rare or non-existent.
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Google audience: No audience reviews are available for 'Home' (1916) due to its age and the likely loss of the film itself.
Fun Fact
The film is presumed lost, which is a common fate for many films produced during the silent era, especially shorts, due to nitrate film decomposition and lack of preservation efforts in the early 20th century.
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