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      Home Room

      R Released Sep 5, 2003 2h 12m Drama List
      55% 22 Reviews Tomatometer 78% 5,000+ Ratings Audience Score A deranged teen kills several fellow students, leaving "it girl" Deanna Cartwright (Erika Christensen) alive but badly wounded. Police Detective Martin Van Zandt (Victor Garber) suspects that student Alicia Browning (Busy Philipps), a misunderstood outsider who wasn't hurt, had a role in the murders. The police start monitoring her activities, and, at the behest of police and school officials, Alicia visits Deanna at the hospital. But the meeting yields an unexpected result. Read More Read Less
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      Honorable intentions and some strong performances aren't enough to keep Home Room from occasionally slipping into distractingly didactic messaging.

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      Audience Member Between 2.5 and 3 stars. This story of an atypical relation could have been better, but it would need more depth. When you see the end, you feel it could have been much better. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Dark and heavy. I didn't enjoy it at times, but it definitely kept my interest. (First and only viewing - 9/8/2019) Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review flixster f Might have appreciated it better had I not gone in with the assumption that it's about the school shooting (and what leads to it; a la "Klass") instead of the after-effects. But still, the movie is quite flawed for what it is. Tries to make a social commentary which gets lost somewhere in all the melodrama. The actress playing Alicia wears too much make-up for what her character requires. Fails to generate the emotional effect it should have aimed for and ends up as a teen drama (almost leaning towards a chick flick) overall. To worsen it all, it's unnecessarily lengthy. That could have been avoided in the very least. If you're looking for A LESSON IN EVIL, this isn't the right one. Having said that all, it's not as bad as some movies I've recently watched. "Go figure" as Alicia might have said!! Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member I have loved this movie since i was 14 and I first saw it. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Takes some disturbing and turns it into a different creature. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member Following an episode of gun violence in a small town high school, outsider Alicia is practically forced to spend time and help a girl who survived the shooting while being investigated on the episode. The film also has heavy dramatic backdrops in the history of the individual characters. While it inevitably looks like the less stylised version of Gus van Sant's Elephant, and has a dull pace and a screenplay often filled with clichés, one cannot deny that it has its dramatic impact and also find the conversations between the two girls compelling and thought provoking. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Erika Gonzalez Denver Rocky Mountain News Weighted by good intentions, Ryan turns a potentially riveting story of two lost souls shaken by trauma into a sappy teen drama. Rated: C- Sep 12, 2003 Full Review Lisa Kennedy Denver Post Alicia and Deanna's journey toward friendship, or at least a truer understanding, is moving. Rated: 2.5/4 Sep 12, 2003 Full Review Kirk Honeycutt Hollywood Reporter In the midst of this didactic, self-conscious movie about a high school shooting comes an extraordinary and intense performance by a young actress named Busy Philipps, which elevates the whole picture. Sep 8, 2003 Full Review Film Threat Rated: 4/5 Jan 22, 2013 Full Review Film Threat Rated: 4/5 Dec 6, 2005 Full Review Christopher Null Filmcritic.com Rated: 3.5/5 Aug 3, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis A deranged teen kills several fellow students, leaving "it girl" Deanna Cartwright (Erika Christensen) alive but badly wounded. Police Detective Martin Van Zandt (Victor Garber) suspects that student Alicia Browning (Busy Philipps), a misunderstood outsider who wasn't hurt, had a role in the murders. The police start monitoring her activities, and, at the behest of police and school officials, Alicia visits Deanna at the hospital. But the meeting yields an unexpected result.
      Director
      Paul F. Ryan
      Screenwriter
      Paul F. Ryan
      Distributor
      DEJ Productions, Innovation Film Group
      Production Co
      Homeroom LLC
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Sep 5, 2003, Wide
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Apr 6, 2017
      Runtime
      2h 12m
      Sound Mix
      Surround