Deportee

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For the Woody Guthrie song, see "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)".

Deportee (1976) is a dramatic short film written, produced and directed by Sharron Miller. It stars Andrew Stevens, Leslie Paxton, and Sam Gilman.

It tells the story of a young man and his alcoholic father who live in a skid-row hotel while trying to make ends meet. The father longs for the farm they left behind when they came to the city seeking a better life. The young man falls in love with a beautiful but troubled older woman who lives down the hall. Their bittersweet romance both fulfills and torments him as in the end it proves to be his painful rite-of-passage into adulthood.