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Homer
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	John Trent
Written by	Claude Harz Matt Clark
Screenplay by	Claude Harz
Produced by	Terence Dene Steven North
Starring	Don Scardino Tisa Farrow Alex Nicol
Cinematography	Laszlo George
Edited by	Michael Menne
Music by	Don Scardino
Production companies	Cinema Center Films Palomar Pictures
Distributed by	National General Pictures
Release dates	September 21, 1970 (1970-09-21) (Louisville, Kentucky) September 30, 1970 (1970-09-30) (Los Angeles) November 23, 1970 (1970-11-23) (New York)
Running time	91 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Homer is a 1970 Canadian-American drama film directed by John Trent and starring Don Scardino, Tisa Farrow and Alex Nicol.

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.

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

• Don Scardino as Homer Edwards
• Tisa Farrow as Laurie Grainger
• Alex Nicol as Mr. Harry Edwards
• Lenka Peterson as Mrs. Edwards
• Tim Henry as Eddie Cochran
• Tom Harvey as Mr. Jess Tibbet
• Jan Campbell as Mrs. Grainger
• Arch McDonnell as Mr. Grainger
• Ralph Endersby as Hector
• Murray Westgate as Mr. Cochran
• Mona O'Hearn as Mrs. Cochran
• Bob Warner as Sheriff
• Trudy Young as Sally
• Allen Doremus as Minister

Filming locations

• Schomberg, Ontario
• Unionville, Ontario
• Palgrave, Ontario

Critical reception

A contemporary review in The Village Voice described the film as having "an excessive amount of music and its fair share of gratuitous lyrical photography" and "small talk is over-extended and becomes a kind of slack parody," but noted that "Tim Henry's performance as the doomed young man is miraculous, and there is no way of knowing how much of it is due to genius and how much to luck." A review of the film in TV Guide described it as "ell meaning though cliché," "riddled with cliched shots of sunsets, sex scenes in silhouette, and dope smoking," and that the "direction is far too simplistic, as is the script."

See also

• List of American films of 1970

References

1. ^ "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.
6. Gottlieb, Stephen. "Film: Homer". Google News. Retrieved 2024-09-20.
7. "Homer Reviews". TV Guide. Retrieved 2024-09-20.

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• Homer at IMDb

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