All I could remember is that it was about a family that lost their parents in a car accident, and the kids were going to be split up to go into foster homes, but instead the oldest sibling somehow got all of the kids together and moved to another state and started a new life in a new city under alia's - so they wouldn't be "caught" Because the state was looking for them/ I also remember that they bought or rented a big house, and seemed to be always working on the house. The movie came on ALL the time on HBO probably around 1988. It was a Kids/Teen movie. I think it even was from HBO pictures.