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Homecoming (2009)

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Reviews Counted:19

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Rotten:19

Average Rating:3/10

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Mike (Matt Long) was the star quarterback in a blue-collar small town where football is everything. After receiving a scholarship to Northwestern University, he returns home over Christmas break... Mike (Matt Long) was the star quarterback in a blue-collar small town where football is everything. After receiving a scholarship to Northwestern University, he returns home over Christmas break and everyone is surprised to see him with a new girlfriend, Elizabeth (Jessica Stroup), a pretty rich girl from Chicago. No one is more shocked than Mike's homecoming queen ex-girlfriend, Shelby (Mischa Barton), who desperately wants Elizabeth out of the picture. After a freak car accident leaves an injured Elizabeth at the mercy of Shelby, all hell breaks loose as Shelby does everything it takes to get Mike back. --© Paper Street Films [More]

Starring: Mischa Barton, Matt Long, Jessica Stroup, Michael Landes

Starring: Mischa Barton, Matt Long, Jessica Stroup, Michael Landes

Director: Morgan J. Freeman

Director: Morgan J. Freeman
Screenwriter: Katie L. Fetting
Producer: Bingo Gubelmann, Bill Papariella, Austin Stark, Jim Young
Composer: Jack Livesey, Peter Nashel
Studio: Paper Street Films

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Rent Obsessed instead. That one you can at least laugh at.

Full Review Source: Dread Central | comment Comment
10/07/09
Uncle Creepy
Uncle Creepy
Dread Central

Too lazy, preposterous and inane to even be considered as a guilty pleasure.

Full Review Source: NYC Movie Guru | comment Comment
07/22/09
Avi Offer
Avi Offer
NYC Movie Guru

Neither trashy nor self-consciously funny enough to make its genre-trapped ludicrousness sing.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
07/20/09
Robert Abele
Robert Abele
Los Angeles Times
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The movie takes a premise that might have served as the basis of a weepy romantic drama and turns it into something very different, but no less insulting.

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07/17/09
Robert Levin
Robert Levin
Critic's Notebook

When is a movie remake not a movie remake? When the filmmakers involved know what they've made is so wretched they don't dare admit it. The most oblivious MTV viewer won't miss the blatant plagiarism.

Full Review Source: TheDivaReview.com | comment Comment
07/17/09
Diva Velez
Diva Velez
TheDivaReview.com

Rooted by a nice sense of place but, much like its real life namesake, Homecoming isn't age-appropriate for everyone -- maybe just those in high school, or barely removed. Others will likely find the familiarity more humdrum than effectively nostal

Full Review Source: Shared Darkness | comment Comment
07/17/09
Brent Simon
Brent Simon
Shared Darkness

As ineffectual police work and broken feet stack up, the silliness gets out of hand.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
07/17/09
Joe Neumaier
Joe Neumaier
New York Daily News

Everything, including the ending, plays out exactly as you'd expect.

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07/17/09
Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith
New York Post

A silly, low-rent mash-up of Misery and Fatal Attraction, featuring neither the clever psychology of the former nor the layers of emasculation and consequence of the latter.

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07/17/09
Mark Keizer
Mark Keizer
Boxoffice Magazine

You can tell where this is all going, and the familiarity wouldn't be so bad if this cast could have some fun with the cliches. Alas, these CW stars pout and frown and yell, while lumbering and plodding through the Stephen King/Rob Reiner playbook.

Full Review Source: MSNBC | comment Comment
07/17/09
Alonso Duralde
Alonso Duralde
MSNBC

Teen thriller/romance is gory but ho-hum. Skip it.

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07/17/09
S. Jhoanna Robledo
S. Jhoanna Robledo
Common Sense Media

An unmitigated B-movie that isn't thrilling enough or cheesy enough to make it worth the trip.

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07/17/09
Michael Rechtshaffen
Michael Rechtshaffen
Hollywood Reporter
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Homecoming is coldly efficient for what it is. But what it is is trash.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
07/17/09
Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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Nothing in the film is truly, laughably bad, but then -- unlike this year's Obsessed -- nothing is campily entertaining, either.

Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | comment Comment
07/16/09
Stephen Whitty
Stephen Whitty
Newark Star-Ledger

Homecoming is Exhibit A in how casting can make--or in this case, break--a genre picture.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
07/16/09
Ethan Alter
Ethan Alter
Film Journal International

A bizarre mash-up of Fatal Attraction and Stephen King's Misery, with so many risible premises that it's hard to know where to begin.

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07/16/09
Marshall Fine
Marshall Fine
Hollywood & Fine

Competent but unimaginative.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
07/15/09
Ronnie Scheib
Ronnie Scheib
Variety
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Director Morgan J. Freeman doesn’t excite much of a pulse from the film’s gentle, lunkheaded object of desire.

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07/15/09
Joshua Rothkopf
Joshua Rothkopf
Time Out New York

If nothing else, Homecoming should effectively squelch any movie-star ambition on the part of Mischa Barton, though the camera is more than usually attentive to her cleavage.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
07/15/09
Ella Taylor
Ella Taylor
Village Voice
 
 
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