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Home of the Brave (2007)
description written by member Zara:
Oscar-winning producer Irwin Winkler (Rocky) takes the director's seat for this drama about three American soldiers trying to adjust to life after Iraq. Samuel L. Jackson stars as a doctor who returns to his practice only to find his life unraveling, and Eva Mendes portrays the wife who's overjoyed to see him but disturbed to find he isn't the man she knew before the war. Jessica Biel, Christina Ricci, 50 Cent and Brian Presley co-star.
| Release Date: | May 11th, 2007 |
| MPAA Rating: | R |
| Running Time: | 105 minutes |
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| Written By: |  | Mark Friedman |
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Home of the Brave Movie Review by Zara  (8/4/2009) |
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To be honest, I ended up falling asleep toward the last 20 minutes of the movie or so. But it's really not all that important that I watched that time of the film since we've seen these types of poor-me stories from multiple angles about vets coming back from the war.
Most of the injuries that get whined about in these...
(complete Home of the Brave review by Zara)
| Home of the Brave Movie Review by Tim (10/24/2007) |
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Home of the brave received everything BUT stellar reviews from the critics. Add to that bringing in only $250,369 (yes that's two hundred and fifty thousand dollars) WORLDWIDE at the box office and most people would laugh thinking that this was an utter failure.
I must say I truly believe that people are not liking this...
(complete Home of the Brave review by Tim)
The key to this film is the scene where Vanessa (Jessica Biel) and Tommy (Brian Presley) meet in the theater. They exchange psychotropic information and sit down and talk like they have know each other their entire lives. The fact that they are strangers is irrelevant because they have more in common now that with those...
(complete Home of the Brave review by Movie Addict)
| Home of the Brave Movie Review by Chris (11/10/2007) |
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Home of the Brave, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Jessica Biel, directed by Irwin Winkler, is a want to be drama. While there are many fine films made about the return home of war veterans and such, Home of The Brave takes movies like The Deer Hunter and Platoon and tries to put them in modern times. I guess the writer of...
(complete Home of the Brave review by Chris)
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