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Home Front, The (The Scoundrel's Wife)

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Home Front, The (The Scoundrel's Wife) reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Romance

Written by: Michelle Benoit
Glen Pitre

Directed by: Glen Pitre

Release Date:
Theatrical: April 25, 2003
DVD: April 13, 2004

Running Time: 99 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: R for brief sexuality and some violent images

Starring Tatum O'Neal, Julian Sands, Tim Curry, Lacey Chabert, Eion Bailey, Patrick McCullough, Lance Spellerberg, and Kurt Gerard

Based on true stories of the Cajun homefront during World War II, when German U-boats threatened the American coast.

What The Critics Said

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Film Threat Merle Bertrand

An unusual tale about an often over-glorified era from our past, The Scoundrel's Wife exposes wartime America's sordid small town underbelly in a captivating, even entertaining manner.

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63

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

The movie is finally just a little too ungainly, too jumbled at the end, for me to recommend, but it has heart, and I feel a lot of affection for it.

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60

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

Scripted by Pitre and his wife, Michelle Benoit, this is more interesting for its historical setting than for its rather wooden drama, but Tim Curry gives a pretty good performance as the town's whiskey priest.

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50

Variety Joe Leydon

A bland gumbo of wartime intrigue and home-front soap opera in the bayou country of Louisiana.

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50

Chicago Tribune Allison Benedikt

The shame is that Pitre, shooting entirely in his home state, wasn't more engaged himself. His intimate connection to the people, place and story, which certainly inspired him to write the film in the first place, is wasted.

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