Rent Obsessed instead. That one you can at least laugh at.
Homecoming (2009)
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Reviews Counted:19
Fresh:0
Rotten:19
Average Rating:3/10
Synopsis: Mike (Matt Long) was the star quarterback in a blue-collar small town where football is everything. After receiving a scholarship to Northwestern University, he returns home over Christmas break... Mike (Matt Long) was the star quarterback in a blue-collar small town where football is everything. After receiving a scholarship to Northwestern University, he returns home over Christmas break and everyone is surprised to see him with a new girlfriend, Elizabeth (Jessica Stroup), a pretty rich girl from Chicago. No one is more shocked than Mike's homecoming queen ex-girlfriend, Shelby (Mischa Barton), who desperately wants Elizabeth out of the picture. After a freak car accident leaves an injured Elizabeth at the mercy of Shelby, all hell breaks loose as Shelby does everything it takes to get Mike back. --© Paper Street Films [More]
Starring: Mischa Barton, Matt Long, Jessica Stroup, Michael Landes
Starring: Mischa Barton, Matt Long, Jessica Stroup, Michael Landes
Director: Morgan J. Freeman
Director: Morgan J. Freeman
Screenwriter: Katie L. Fetting
Producer: Bingo Gubelmann, Bill Papariella, Austin Stark, Jim Young
Composer: Jack Livesey, Peter Nashel
Studio: Paper Street Films
Reviews for Homecoming
Too lazy, preposterous and inane to even be considered as a guilty pleasure.
Neither trashy nor self-consciously funny enough to make its genre-trapped ludicrousness sing.
The movie takes a premise that might have served as the basis of a weepy romantic drama and turns it into something very different, but no less insulting.
When is a movie remake not a movie remake? When the filmmakers involved know what they've made is so wretched they don't dare admit it. The most oblivious MTV viewer won't miss the blatant plagiarism.
Rooted by a nice sense of place but, much like its real life namesake, Homecoming isn't age-appropriate for everyone -- maybe just those in high school, or barely removed. Others will likely find the familiarity more humdrum than effectively nostal
As ineffectual police work and broken feet stack up, the silliness gets out of hand.
A silly, low-rent mash-up of Misery and Fatal Attraction, featuring neither the clever psychology of the former nor the layers of emasculation and consequence of the latter.
You can tell where this is all going, and the familiarity wouldn't be so bad if this cast could have some fun with the cliches. Alas, these CW stars pout and frown and yell, while lumbering and plodding through the Stephen King/Rob Reiner playbook.
An unmitigated B-movie that isn't thrilling enough or cheesy enough to make it worth the trip.
Homecoming is coldly efficient for what it is. But what it is is trash.
Nothing in the film is truly, laughably bad, but then -- unlike this year's Obsessed -- nothing is campily entertaining, either.
Homecoming is Exhibit A in how casting can make--or in this case, break--a genre picture.
A bizarre mash-up of Fatal Attraction and Stephen King's Misery, with so many risible premises that it's hard to know where to begin.
Director Morgan J. Freeman doesn’t excite much of a pulse from the film’s gentle, lunkheaded object of desire.
If nothing else, Homecoming should effectively squelch any movie-star ambition on the part of Mischa Barton, though the camera is more than usually attentive to her cleavage.
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