Rotten
Obvious, plodding, cloying and politically innocuous.
John Anderson, Variety
Home of the Brave
The final test of courage is coming home.
2006 · 1h 46m · R
Drama, War
Directed by
Irwin Winkler
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Irwin Winkler Director
- Samuel L. Jackson as William Marsh
- Jessica Biel as Vanessa Price
- Christina Ricci as Sarah Schivino
- Victoria Rowell as Penelope Marsh
- 50 Cent as Jamal Aiken
- Sam Jones as Billy Marsh
- Chad Michael Murray as Jordan Owens
- Jeffrey Nordling as Cary
- Brian Presley as Tommy Yates
- Vyto Ruginis as Hank Yates
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
22%
Tomatometer
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
Rotten
Earnest but lazy, fitfully laughable and insulting, Home of the Brave is cowardly work.
Stephen Garrett, Time Out New York
Fresh
This is a solid and timely piece of work from Hollywood veteran Irwin Winkler.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
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
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