Rueben's Ramblings

The UP Network movie Far From Home will debut at 7 PM on February 9.

Barry Watson (7th Heaven) will play Nicholas Bell, who angrily left his small island town after a terrible fight with the uncle who raised him and owned the local newspaper where Nick began his writing career. After cutting off all ties with his uncle and going out on his own, Bell wrote a wildly successful novel, “Broken Windows,” which led critics to declare him to be the “voice of his new generation.” After 15 years of failure to come up with a meaningful follow-up novel, Bell settles into teaching undergraduate writing at a small university.

When he learns that his uncle has died, Bell returns to his hometown for the funeral, suffering one mishap after another. The local townspeople are glad to see the famous homegrown talent return, at least partially because his uncle left him the family’s local paper and key property. Eager to divest himself of the newspaper and return to teaching, Bell finds himself wedged in the middle of a bitter fight over the future of the island, and face to face with the real reason behind what sent him so far from home for so long.

The cast includes Stefanie von Pfetten (Cracked) and Paul McGillion (Stargate Atlantis).

Here is a trailer for Far From Home.