Lead Me Home

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Lead Me Home

PG-13

2021

39m

Documentary

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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

Sprinkled in are officials' comments but this is mostly the unhoused's story to tell and that's a smart decision.

Rated: 3.5/4

Dec 3, 2021

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Jason Flatt

But Why Tho? A Geek Community

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.

Rated: 7.5/10

Jan 16, 2023

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Barbara Shulgasser

Common Sense Media

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.

Rated: 4/5

Feb 4, 2022

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Jade Budowski

Decider

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.

Dec 13, 2021

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

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.

Dec 10, 2021

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Yvonne Bohwongprasert

Bangkok Post

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.

Dec 10, 2021

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Georgan G

More proof that the rich do absolutely nothing for the poor.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/21/24

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Tina G

It was informative, touching , sad . Any one of us could end up in the same situation, without a job , house, car . Everyone should watch this short documentary LEAD ME HOME !

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/06/23

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Richard R

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.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/26/23

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Audience Member

If you’re looking for reasons or answers - this movie does not scratch the surface.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

11/29/22

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Audience Member

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.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/16/23

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jona i

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.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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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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