Homecoming
- Episode aired Dec 2, 2005
- Not Rated
- 58m
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
4.4K
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A hotshot White House speech writer deals with the publicity nightmare of his life when recently deceased soldiers return from beyond the grave.A hotshot White House speech writer deals with the publicity nightmare of his life when recently deceased soldiers return from beyond the grave.A hotshot White House speech writer deals with the publicity nightmare of his life when recently deceased soldiers return from beyond the grave.
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Karen Elizabeth Austin
- Mom
- (as Karen Austin)
J. Winston Carroll
- Rev. Clayton Poole
- (as J.W. Carroll)
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Did you know
- TriviaWhen the zombie soldiers come out of their graves, their tombstones have the names of veterans of the horror and zombie genre. Easy to read are Jacques Tourneur, G.A. Romero ( George A. Romero), Jean Yarbrough, and Delbert Tenney (Del Tenney). Harder to read are Lucio Fulci, Victor Halperin, and Gordon Douglas. The (readable) graves have this order: Romero and Tenney in the first line, behind them Fulci and Halperin, and in the last line behind Fulci is Tourneur, who is in the middle of Douglas and Yarbrough.
- GoofsThe talk show host Marty Clark says that David Murch's brother Phillip is buried in "Silver Springs, Maryland." Although commonly but mistakenly called "Silver Springs," the city is actually "Silver Spring."
- ConnectionsReferences Frankenstein (1931)
Featured review
Weak point, but likable and dislikable for other reasons
While I liked the sentiment, it did not seem horrifying at all to me. The dead were not out to do anything mindless at all. Thus, the fact that their bodies are decaying doesn't actually make them dangerous. The closest they get to being dangerous is when the one dead guy attacks the "Rove" character. But even that seemed to be carefully handled. The dead guy is provoked, and has nothing to lose.
So anyway, a brief recount of the story. A political consultant appears on a Larry King-esquire show and says that if he could, it would be great to have all of the dead in this current war (although unnamed, it's clear that it's our involvement in Iraq) to come back so they could let us know that it was worth it. Then the dead come back, and it becomes clear that they are interested in voting for any candidate that will end the war.
The story this is based on is called Death and Suffrage, which I'm interested in reading. It is not a war-related story exactly, but it's about gun control. Joe Dante adapted the story to his own purposes. I've seen a fair amount of Dante's work. The Howling, Gremlins, Explorers, Innerspace, Matinée, Small Soldiers, as well as handful of his TV episode credits. His work consistently has a certain amount of wildness to it, the stories seem almost too big to effectively handle in the confines of a standard feature film. This one feels more like he didn't have enough material.
I find myself wondering if this film would be more horrifying to someone conservative enough to not recognize that they're making fun of them. I also kept thinking of The Simpsons and "Oh no! The dead have risen and they're voting Republican!" There are other details that should make it more ambiguous; no party is ever named. The only clues that they're picking on the current administration is the facts that 1) we're in a war, similar to their mentioning, that is of this administration's doing. 2) characters are similar to other well known political figures. There's Rove, there's a Bush character that we see very fleetingly on a TV, and hear him talking in "his way" and one of the key characters is very much Ann Coulter. At least the way that I imagine her behaving off camera. I'm sure I'm wrong.
I love living dead movies. I tend to have a great time with even the worst of them, but this one falls short in the horror category. I found that I liked certain sequences, particularly some of the phrases that the Coulter character uses. The fact that those phrases are used as selling points for policy indicates something has been going wrong.
But I strongly defend Joe Dante for having the conviction to make this movie. It's fairly creative, and the message makes a decent point. While it's possible to make a pro-war or "let's wipe them out" sort of movie, I don't think that would be effective. The closest we can get to that is something like Independence Day. Stir up patriotism, that'll make you willing to go out and kill. But only for your country.
As I said, there's nothing too horrifying in it. If you're liberal, you'll find some of the Coulter comments to be horrible. If you're conservative, you'll be dismissive and bored. Probably the weakest point in the series, but it's still a pretty high point, but for all the wrong reasons.
So anyway, a brief recount of the story. A political consultant appears on a Larry King-esquire show and says that if he could, it would be great to have all of the dead in this current war (although unnamed, it's clear that it's our involvement in Iraq) to come back so they could let us know that it was worth it. Then the dead come back, and it becomes clear that they are interested in voting for any candidate that will end the war.
The story this is based on is called Death and Suffrage, which I'm interested in reading. It is not a war-related story exactly, but it's about gun control. Joe Dante adapted the story to his own purposes. I've seen a fair amount of Dante's work. The Howling, Gremlins, Explorers, Innerspace, Matinée, Small Soldiers, as well as handful of his TV episode credits. His work consistently has a certain amount of wildness to it, the stories seem almost too big to effectively handle in the confines of a standard feature film. This one feels more like he didn't have enough material.
I find myself wondering if this film would be more horrifying to someone conservative enough to not recognize that they're making fun of them. I also kept thinking of The Simpsons and "Oh no! The dead have risen and they're voting Republican!" There are other details that should make it more ambiguous; no party is ever named. The only clues that they're picking on the current administration is the facts that 1) we're in a war, similar to their mentioning, that is of this administration's doing. 2) characters are similar to other well known political figures. There's Rove, there's a Bush character that we see very fleetingly on a TV, and hear him talking in "his way" and one of the key characters is very much Ann Coulter. At least the way that I imagine her behaving off camera. I'm sure I'm wrong.
I love living dead movies. I tend to have a great time with even the worst of them, but this one falls short in the horror category. I found that I liked certain sequences, particularly some of the phrases that the Coulter character uses. The fact that those phrases are used as selling points for policy indicates something has been going wrong.
But I strongly defend Joe Dante for having the conviction to make this movie. It's fairly creative, and the message makes a decent point. While it's possible to make a pro-war or "let's wipe them out" sort of movie, I don't think that would be effective. The closest we can get to that is something like Independence Day. Stir up patriotism, that'll make you willing to go out and kill. But only for your country.
As I said, there's nothing too horrifying in it. If you're liberal, you'll find some of the Coulter comments to be horrible. If you're conservative, you'll be dismissive and bored. Probably the weakest point in the series, but it's still a pretty high point, but for all the wrong reasons.
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- jdollak
- Apr 9, 2006
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