Homer (film)

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Homer
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by John Trent [1]
Written byClaude Harz
Matt Clark [1]
Screenplay byClaude Harz [1]
Produced byTerence Dene
Steven North [1]
Starring
CinematographyLaszlo George [1]
Edited byMichael Menne [1]
Music by Don Scardino
Production
companies
Distributed by National General Pictures [1]
Release dates
  • September 21, 1970 (1970-09-21)
(Louisville, Kentucky) [1]
  • September 30, 1970 (1970-09-30)
(Los Angeles) [1]
  • November 23, 1970 (1970-11-23)
(New York) [1]
Running time
91 minutes [1]
CountryUnited States [1]
LanguageEnglish

Homer is a 1970 Canadian-American drama film directed by John Trent and starring Don Scardino, Tisa Farrow and Alex Nicol. [2] [3] [4]

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The film was entered in competition at the 22nd Canadian Film Awards in 1970, although its inclusion was controversial; it was shot in Canada with a Canadian director, but financed by an American studio and told a story set in the United States, resulting in some debate about whether the film was sufficiently Canadian. [5]

Plot

A high school graduate, named Homer, experiences the pains of the generation gap and the Vietnam War in the late 1960s while growing up in Schomberg, Wisconsin.

Cast

Filming locations

Critical reception

A contemporary review in The Village Voice described the film as having "an excessive amount of music and its fair share of gratuitous lyrical photography" and "small talk [that] is over-extended and becomes a kind of slack parody," but noted that "Tim Henry's performance as the doomed young man is miraculous, and there is no way of knowing how much of it is due to genius and how much to luck." [6] A review of the film in TV Guide described it as "[w]ell meaning though cliché," "riddled with cliched shots of sunsets, sex scenes in silhouette, and dope smoking," and that the "direction is far too simplistic, as is the script." [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 "Homer (1970)". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. AFI. Retrieved August 17, 2018.
  2. ↑ Leonard Maltin (1997). Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide . Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, 1997. ISBN   0452279143.
  3. ↑ Jeremy M. Devine (1999). Vietnam at 24 Frames a Second. University of Texas Press, 1999. ISBN   029271601X.
  4. ↑ Pierre Véronneau, Piers Handling (1980). Self portrait: essays on the Canadian and Quebec cinemas. Canadian Film Institute, 1980. ISBN   0919096204.
  5. ↑ Betty Lee, "Fourteen films in the running for Etrog's golden approval". The Globe and Mail , September 19, 1970.
  6. ↑ Gottlieb, Stephen. "Film: Homer". Google News. Retrieved 2024-09-20.
  7. ↑ "Homer Reviews". TV Guide. Retrieved 2024-09-20.


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