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]
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

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "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.