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Lead Me Home

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Fighting just to survive, California's homeless population suffers as housing costs soar, pushing more of the disadvantaged onto the streets.
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Randy Myers San Jose Mercury News 12/03/2021
3.5/4
Sprinkled in are officials' comments but this is mostly the unhoused's story to tell and that's a smart decision. Go to Full Review
Jason Flatt But Why Tho? A Geek Community 01/16/2023
7.5/10
Lead Me Home is the best demonstration of how inhumane the treatment of America’s homeless population truly is...it cuts critically at the heart of one of the United States’ greatest shames. Go to Full Review
Barbara Shulgasser Common Sense Media 02/04/2022
4/5
Without telling the audience what to think, without a narrator explaining and intervening, the directors take us into the difficult and heart-breaking lives of people marginalized by bad luck, mental health problems, drug use, class, race, and gender. Go to Full Review
Jade Budowski Decider 12/13/2021
Lead Me Home is a necessary, heartrending piece of art, a vital, poetic examination of the housing crisis and the very real people it affects every day. Go to Full Review
Dennis Harvey 48 Hills 12/10/2021
A sort of multi-city symphony on a theme of ever-increasing division and hardship in the wealthiest nation on Earth, this poetical document is now playing on Netflix. Go to Full Review
Yvonne Bohwongprasert Bangkok Post 12/10/2021
Lead Me Home is one of Emmy-winning directors Jon Shenk and Pedro Kos's most compelling works and braces humanity in its entirety, weaving personal stories with aerial vistas, time-lapses and evocative details of contemporary American urban life. Go to Full Review
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Georgan G 04/21/2024 More proof that the rich do absolutely nothing for the poor. See more Richard R 01/26/2023 If you want to watch 39 minutes of random shots of CA traffic, neighborhoods, homeless people doing stuff, etc., accompanied nearly 100% of the time by thoroughly obnoxious, so-called "music" that no doubt was generated by some teenage relative of the producers, interspersed with a few seconds of the stories of how the homeless got to be homeless that you thought you were watching this junk for in the first place, by all means tune in. See more 11/29/2022 If you’re looking for reasons or answers - this movie does not scratch the surface. See more 07/19/2022 It was just cinematic shots of cities and people. It didn't even do a good job visually showing the scale of the problem, let alone explain anything like the issue, how we got here, what we can do, or even let people explain their stories. What a joke. This was just homeless exploitation. The production crew should be ashamed of themselves. See more jona i 04/09/2022 While it presents sad situations sympathetically, that's as far as it goes. It presents a major problem with no further insight or possible solution or efforts to help or hurt the situation. Perhaps it would have gotten there as a feature documentary, which it definitely had the potential to get to. It's too large a topic for a short doc. See more 03/29/2022 Not sure flashing through various video shots of cities and homeless camps can be called a documentary..... Really confused at why this 40 minute documentary wasn't shortened into 10 to 15. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Fighting just to survive, California's homeless population suffers as housing costs soar, pushing more of the disadvantaged onto the streets.
Director
Pedro Kos, Jon Shenk
Producer
Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen, Serin Marshall
Production Co
Actual Films
Rating
PG-13 (Brief Strong Language|Thematic Elements)
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 30, 2021
Runtime
39m
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