Home of the Brave
Drama, War
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2006
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The day after they get the word they'll go home in two weeks, a group of soldiers from Spokane are ambushed in an Iraqi city. Back stateside we follow four of them - a surgeon who saw too much, a teacher who's a single mom and who lost a hand in the ambush, an infantry man whose best friend died that day, and a soldier who keeps reliving the moment he killed a civilian woman.
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Rated:
R
Runtime:
106 min
Release date:
15 Dec 2006
Country:
US
Languages:
Arabic, English, Spanish
Budget:
$12,000,000
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
4 nominations
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
Home Of The Brave ultimately says ... what? War is tough. That's fair, and so is [director] Winkler's reluctance to engage the politics of this particular war and focus on the soldiers that fight it.
– Keith Phipps,
AV Club,
17 Dec 2006
fresh:
This is a solid and timely piece of work from Hollywood veteran Irwin Winkler.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
18 Dec 2006
rotten:
Earnest but lazy, fitfully laughable and insulting, Home of the Brave is cowardly work.
– Stephen Garrett,
Time Out New York,
3 Feb 2007
fresh:
I must say the best thing about the movie is that it's interested in the soldiers, not the self-serving popinjays who seem to think the war is a big fat career-enhancing photo opportunity. The people who got shot at deserve most of the attention.
– Stephen Hunter,
Washington Post,
10 May 2007
rotten:
Obvious, plodding, cloying and politically innocuous.
– John Anderson,
Variety,
16 Apr 2008