Desc: Closer to Home: Directed by Joseph Nobile. With Madeline Ortaliz, John Michael Bolger, Elizabeth Bracco, Ralph Buckley. Dalisay struggles to journey from the Philippine countryside to New York City to marry Dean, a disillusioned ex-merchant marine. She's hoping to buy a cure for her dying sister and ultimately a future for her debt-ridden family, while he hopes to escape his disintegrating American family through love and a family of his own.