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Released May 1, 2009

1 hr. 24 min.

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After undergoing intense cancer treatments, pensive poet Inga (Marcia Gay Harden) finds comfort in her wide-eyed daughter, Indigo (Eulala Scheel), and in murky recollections of her own charmed upbringing. After Inga discovers a property in rural Pennsylvania that's very much like the home she knew as a child, she becomes determined to buy it. And, when her emotionally distant husband, Hermann (Michael Gaston), refuses to move, it throws their strained marriage even further into turmoil.

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Ursula Meier's debut feature 'HOME' is an interesting take on familial disconnect, with an eco parable subtext. Some fantastic performances, but it goes overboard in it's final third, with melodrama and unwarranted psychothrills aplenty. Read my full review here: http://366movies.com/2012/12/01/327home/

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/12/23

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J'ai adoré le côté humain et émotionnel du film, par contre histoire invraisemblable, mais suspense et stress bien intense à un certain moment (pour ne pas rien révéler). Unique en son genre! Personnages incarnés, attachants.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/19/23

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A strangely depressing tale of a family facing uncertain times when a major highway is built practically in their backyard. Some events in this movie are so out of this world I can't help but think it was meant as an allegory.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/09/23

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Home (2008): Heartfelt French film about a family that have a motorway built on their doorstep, descends into chaos. Cool shooting 7/10

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/26/23

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Another great film that requires a follow up.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/12/23

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As one critic said... "Though there is little here for an informed person to take issue with, the film's well-intentioned preachiness is unlikely to win over those who favor Genesis and denial over climate science." Yea, those who favor Genesis, & claim that the Earth is flat, that the Earth is 6,800 year's old, that the Earth is at the "Center of the Universe", that 2 + 2 really does = 5 & that science has been lying to us all along are never preachy! So, at least their not hypocrite's... I actually take some issue with the statistical information that this film play's with. It is apparent that they chose to group thing's all together, for example, instead of saying 6.7, 6.8, etc., billion, & stressing approximately, they just round it off to 7 billion. I would have preferred more precise statistical information. They likely didn't want to, & ultimately didn't, bc, of the idea that it would scare off the laypeople who don't want to feel like they are being hit over the head with number's; well, the idiot's need to learn, or they should, eventually! And while I believe that climate change is obviously real & that global warming is obviously real, what is the precise cause & the idea that human's are the cause of it is pretty shaky; we have only been documenting accurate measurement's for a little over 100 year's or so. We not only need to be doing more to stop putting the garbage into our environment but, we also need to be doing more to develop & turn a profit with the technologies that will allow us to stop putting the garbage into our environment and to do that fast enough, as that would be the best incentive for us to stop being so stupid with our energy production and energy consumption. Along with the idea that we only have 10 year's, or so, to turn the tied before thing's become irreversible, there are a few different thing's in this film that I found to be fear mongering but, at least it's for a good cause. Sometimes the end's really do justify the mean's. One thing that is irking me currently didn't do so until I got to this webpage; other than Glenn Close as the "Narrator", none of those actor's are even in this damned movie, unless they played some of the tiny little bug-sized ppl that were way down on the ground, far & away from the helicopter's & the jet's that contained the camera's that filmed this movie... So, either the movie got it wrong and/or Flixster did; & more than likely it is entirely Flixster that screwed that one up!

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/23/23

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Mary Haverstick

Director

Marcia Gay Harden

Inga

Marian Seldes

Mary

Michael Gaston

Hermann

Eulala Scheel

Indigo

Pamela Henning

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Aaron Hillis

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Using cinema as self-therapy might be a selfish way to treat audiences, but Harden and Scheel's chemistry makes the mother-daughter dynamic universal.

Apr 30, 2009

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Sara Maria Vizcarrondo

Boxoffice Magazine

While the film’s flow is passable, the highs and the lows of its melodrama require a tolerance for flowery prose that, while not to the taste of this critic, are perfectly appropriate and share the sincerity of a story woven from personal histories.

Rated: 2/5

May 7, 2009

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Avi Offer

NYC Movie Guru

An absorbing, inspirational and often heartwarming drama with radiant, captivating performances by Marcia Gay Harden and her real-life daughter, Eulala Scheel.

Rated: 8.0/10

May 3, 2009

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Prairie Miller

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An ironically titled, simultaneously lyrical and brutal window into cancer as a complex life altering experience, and the ordeal, not of facing death, but rather confronting life as a disfigured and scorned cancer survivor.

Apr 25, 2009

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Synopsis

After undergoing intense cancer treatments, pensive poet Inga (Marcia Gay Harden) finds comfort in her wide-eyed daughter, Indigo (Eulala Scheel), and in murky recollections of her own charmed upbringing. After Inga discovers a property in rural Pennsylvania that's very much like the home she knew as a child, she becomes determined to buy it. And, when her emotionally distant husband, Hermann (Michael Gaston), refuses to move, it throws their strained marriage even further into turmoil.

Director: Mary Haverstick
Executive Producer: Paul Ware, Judy Ware
Screenwriter: Mary Haverstick
Distributor: Monterey Media
Production Co: Haverstick Films
Rating: PG-13 (Disturbing Thematic Material)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 1, 2009, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 16, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $9.0K

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