Touching Home

PG-13

2008

1h 54m

Drama

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50%

14 Reviews

Tomatometer

70%

250+ Ratings

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Two brothers return home after failing to become baseball players and must reconcile with their father and get over past behaviors.

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steve d

deeply uninteresting with some terrible performances. Even Harris is unremarkable.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Frances H

The Natural, it's not, but for a first film, not bad. Ed Harris is always worth a watch!

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/14/19

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Audience Member

Somewhat interesting but acting was pretty poor.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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dave j

Thursday, February 28, 2013 (2008) Touching Home DRAMA Based on actual events from real life twins that works like a 'Sunday Afternoon Special' which involves sons tolerating their alcoholic father(Ed Harris) from the time they were young up until their adults. The father whose played by Ed Harris lies to them, steals from them for selfish reasons including gambling and boozing and they continue to forgive him each time. Near pointless experience when they're better films than this. 1 star out of 4

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Audience Member

For anyone who has grown up in a small blue collar community and has seen the struggles, this movie may hit a little too close to home. All the reviews that talk about the poor acting of the Miller brothers, aren't actually "seeing" the movie. I'm not sure how I never saw this movie before today.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Audience Member

In my opinion, the story was alright, it did though, touch my heart because of the father.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/01/23

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Logan Miller

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Noah Miller

Director

Ed Harris

Charlie Winston

Brad Dourif

Clyde Winston

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Robert Abele

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Handsome but standard-issue heartland fare.

Rated: 2.5/5

Dec 16, 2010

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Dennis Harvey

Variety

The offscreen story of these unknowns getting their autobiographical drama to the screen proves more interesting and inspiring than the polished, earnest, rather routine movie itself.

Jul 6, 2010

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Stephen Holden

New York Times

Without making a fuss about it, Touching Home looks squarely at working-class people for whom professional sports are not just a fantasy, they are also a way out of a dead-end existence.

Rated: 3/5

May 14, 2010

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Ryan Cracknell

Movie Views

Touching Home is stronger when it focuses on the small-town life than when it steps on the ball diamond. The decent cast elevates it to a tolerable level.

Nov 20, 2013

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Avi Offer

NYC Movie Guru

A heartfelt albeit slightly contrived drama that boasts a brave, emotionally resonant performance by Ed Harris as well as inspirational messages about the important virtues of courage, love, hope, passion and family.

Rated: 7.42/10

May 15, 2010

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Kelly Vance

East Bay Express

On the sweet side of bittersweet, but will not rot your teeth.

May 11, 2010

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Synopsis

Two brothers return home after failing to become baseball players and must reconcile with their father and get over past behaviors.

Director: Logan Miller, Noah Miller
Screenwriter: Logan Miller, Noah Miller
Rating: PG-13 (Language|Brief Violence|Alcoholism|Smoking|Thematic Material)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (DVD): Jan 4, 2011
Runtime: 1h 54m