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Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
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Generally favorable reviews
Based on 9 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Documentary
Written by:
Directed by: Richard E. Robbins
Release Date:
Theatrical: February 9, 2007
Running Time: 81 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Edward “Parker” Gyokeres, Ed Hrivnak, John McCary, and Lt. Col. Mike Strobl
This unique documentary explores the firsthand accounts of American soldiers through their own words. The film is built upon a project created by the National Endowment for the Arts to gather the writing of soldiers and their families who have participated in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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What The Critics Said
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
No film can ''capture'' the experience of combat, but this eloquent and moving documentary brings us closer to the emotions (principally boredom and terror) of the soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan than perhaps any previous examination.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Staff (Not credited)
The cumulative effect of Operation Homecoming is to bring to light the soldiers' collective experiences and the enduring nightmares they suffer in our place.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Janice Page
Hits far more marks than it misses. And no work has brought viewers deeper inside the psychology of war.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
The best pieces portray combat as such a heightened sensory experience that it demands to be written about, and they suggest that war can turn ordinary men who wouldn’t think of keeping diaries into latter-day Hemingways.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Ed Gonzalez
These stories of heartache, confusion, and anger combine to form a gallery of art that illuminates the conundrums of warfare and testifies to the philosophical instincts of the American soldier.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
Operation Homecoming at first seems like a modest enterprise, a document of a few guys' paths to personal catharsis. But the sense of damaged intensity found in all these men's writing -- and found in war lit since the classical age -- builds to a powerful crescendo, and the haunting poem that ends the film, in which the ghosts of American and Iraqi dead confront each other on the banks of the Tigris, is a showstopper.
Read Full Review >Variety Ronnie Scheib
Excerpted interviews with WWII and Vietnam veterans suggest that every war is hell, yet it is the specificity of the Iraq War combatants' reminiscences that makes their writing resonate so profoundly.
Read Full Review >New York Post Kyle Smith
Like warriors themselves, you will be left to sort through a jumble of emotions: pride and sorrow, bitterness and gratitude.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Mark Olsen
A project such as Operation Homecoming should shed light on their experiences, but Robbins' film just falls short.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 10.0 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Fifty F. gave it a10:
Extraordinary. The most creative documentary I've seen in years.
Charlie S. gave it a10:
Powerful. Haunting.
