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  • 2003
  • R
  • Innovation Film Group (IFG)
  • 2 h 13 m
  • 2003
  • R
  • Innovation Film Group (IFG)
  • 2 h 13 m

Summary An uncompromising look at lives in crisis and the redemptive power of friendship. Focusing on the universal themes of grief and healing, the film presents an intimate portrait of those who must pick up the pieces of a shattered world after a teenager kills eight other high school students and himself in a school shooting. (DEJ Productio...

Directed By: Paul F. Ryan

Written By: Paul F. Ryan

  • 2003
  • R
  • Innovation Film Group (IFG)
  • 2 h 13 m
  • 2003
  • R
  • Innovation Film Group (IFG)
  • 2 h 13 m

Home Room

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Summary An uncompromising look at lives in crisis and the redemptive power of friendship. Focusing on the universal themes of grief and healing, the film presents an intimate portrait of those who must pick up the pieces of a shattered world after a teenager kills eight other high school students and himself in a school shooting. (DEJ Productio...

Directed By: Paul F. Ryan

Written By: Paul F. Ryan

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Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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7 Reviews
20% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
43
10% Positive
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70% Mixed
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80
An emotional picture that benefits from the extremely powerful performances of its stars.
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60
Distinguishes itself from other such projects by dealing less with the event itself than its devastating aftershocks.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
50
Ryan's heart is definitely in the right place and his film has good performances and flashes of talent. But, overall, it plays like the world's longest — over two hours -- after-school special.
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW
50
The lead performances of Home Room go a long way toward camouflaging the severe flaws of this exceedingly earnest movie.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
40
Feels like detention -- without the possibility of recess.
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30
Writer-editor-director Paul F. Ryan makes the mistake of focusing on an ungainly and, finally, unplayable verbal match between two high schoolers.
By Robert Koehler FULL REVIEW
30
Home Room is badly acted and, running well over two hours, often mind-numbingly ponderous. Depressed rather than hysterical, it's in every way less clever and more literal-minded than "Zero Day."
By J. Hoberman FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Homeroom LLC
Release Date Sep 5, 2003
Duration 2 h 13 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline A senseless tragedy. An unlikely friendship. A search for answers.
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Awards

Chamizal Independent Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Santa Cruz Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Taos Talking Picture Festival
• 1 Nomination

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