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
Homecoming (2009)
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Reviews Counted:19
Fresh:0
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... [More]
Starring: Mischa Barton, Matt Long, Jessica Stroup, Michael Landes
Director: Morgan J. Freeman
Reviews for Homecoming
1 - 19 (sorted by source; UK critics are listed first)
Teen thriller/romance is gory but ho-hum. Skip it.
07/17/09
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.
07/17/09
Rent Obsessed instead. That one you can at least laugh at.
10/07/09
Homecoming is Exhibit A in how casting can make--or in this case, break--a genre picture.
07/16/09
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.
07/16/09
An unmitigated B-movie that isn't thrilling enough or cheesy enough to make it worth the trip.
07/17/09
Top CriticNeither trashy nor self-consciously funny enough to make its genre-trapped ludicrousness sing.
07/20/09
Top CriticYou 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.
07/17/09
As ineffectual police work and broken feet stack up, the silliness gets out of hand.
07/17/09
Everything, including the ending, plays out exactly as you'd expect.
07/17/09
Homecoming is coldly efficient for what it is. But what it is is trash.
07/17/09
Top CriticNothing in the film is truly, laughably bad, but then -- unlike this year's Obsessed -- nothing is campily entertaining, either.
07/16/09
Too lazy, preposterous and inane to even be considered as a guilty pleasure.
07/22/09
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
07/17/09
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.
07/17/09
Director Morgan J. Freeman doesn’t excite much of a pulse from the film’s gentle, lunkheaded object of desire.
07/15/09
Competent but unimaginative.
07/15/09
Top CriticIf 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.
07/15/09
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