Homecoming (2009)

0% of critics liked it
(23 reviews)
37% of users liked it
(56,362 ratings)

A former small-town golden boy returns to his hometown with his new girlfriend, only to find that his onetime high-school sweetheart isn't willing to let go of the past. In the working-class town where Mike (Matt Long) grew up, football is everything. A few months after leaving for Northwestern… More A former small-town golden boy returns to his hometown with his new girlfriend, only to find that his onetime high-school sweetheart isn't willing to let go of the past. In the working-class town where Mike (Matt Long) grew up, football is everything. A few months after leaving for Northwestern University on a scholarship, Mike arrives back home for Christmas break with his pretty new girlfriend, Elizabeth (Jessica Stroup), in tow. Seeing Mike with another woman comes a quite a shock to the people around town; back in high school Mike and his girlfriend Shelby (Mischa Barton) were a fairly hot item, but while Mike has moved on, Shelby has not. The former homecoming queen would like nothing more than to remove Elizabeth from the picture -- permanently -- and when a freak car accident leaves Mike's new girlfriend at the mercy of his bitter ex, Shelby prepares to do whatever it takes to win her old boyfriend back once and for all. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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Rating, Runtime: R, 1 hr. 28 min.
Directed By: Morgan J. Freeman
Written By: Katie L. Fetting
Genres: Mystery & Suspense, Horror

In Theaters: Jul 17, 2009 Wide
On DVD: Apr 20, 2010
Studio: Animus Films

Critic Reviews

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
Neither trashy nor self-consciously funny enough to make its genre-trapped ludicrousness sing.
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News
As ineffectual police work and broken feet stack up, the silliness gets out of hand.
Kyle Smith, New York Post
Everything, including the ending, plays out exactly as you'd expect.
Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter
An unmitigated B-movie that isn't thrilling enough or cheesy enough to make it worth the trip.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Homecoming is coldly efficient for what it is. But what it is is trash.
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
Nothing in the film is truly, laughably bad, but then -- unlike this year's Obsessed -- nothing is campily entertaining, either.
Paul Chambers, CNNRadio
This ripoff of "Misery" will make you miserable. Paul Chambers, CNN.
John J. Puccio, Movie Metropolis
...harmless, if meaningless and redundant, horror nonsense...too innocuous for one to dislike it too much.
John J. Puccio, Movie Metropolis
...there is so little new or innovative about it that if you're a normal moviegoer, you've seen it all before.
Steve "Uncle Creepy" Barton, Dread Central
Rent Obsessed instead. That one you can at least laugh at.
Avi Offer, NYC Movie Guru
Too lazy, preposterous and inane to even be considered as a guilty pleasure.
Robert Levin, Critic's Notebook
The movie takes a premise that might have served as the basis of a weepy romantic drama and turns it into something very different, but no less insulting.
Diva Velez, TheDivaReview.com
When is a movie remake not a movie remake? When the filmmakers involved know what they've made is so wretched they don't dare admit it. The most oblivious MTV viewer won't miss the blatant plagiarism.
Brent Simon, Shared Darkness
Rooted by a nice sense of place but, much like its real life namesake, Homecoming isn't age-appropriate for everyone -- maybe just those in high school, or barely removed. Others will likely find the familiarity more humdrum than effectively nostal
Mark Keizer, Boxoffice Magazine
A silly, low-rent mash-up of Misery and Fatal Attraction, featuring neither the clever psychology of the former nor the layers of emasculation and consequence of the latter.
Alonso Duralde, MSNBC
You can tell where this is all going, and the familiarity wouldn't be so bad if this cast could have some fun with the cliches. Alas, these CW stars pout and frown and yell, while lumbering and plodding through the Stephen King/Rob Reiner playbook.
S. Jhoanna Robledo, Common Sense Media
Teen thriller/romance is gory but ho-hum. Skip it.
Ethan Alter, Film Journal International
Homecoming is Exhibit A in how casting can make--or in this case, break--a genre picture.
Marshall Fine, Hollywood & Fine
A bizarre mash-up of Fatal Attraction and Stephen King's Misery, with so many risible premises that it's hard to know where to begin.

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Really crappy movie.. the story line was good but the acting was off. Only by Mischa Barton. I just haven't liked anything she has been in since The Sixth Sense. This movie was released in July and I just watched it on t.v. Just shows you how bad it was. I did think Matt Long was… More
Really crappy movie.. the story line was good but the acting was off. Only by Mischa Barton. I just haven't liked anything she has been in since The Sixth Sense. This movie was released in July and I just watched it on t.v. Just shows you how bad it was. I did think Matt Long was good and Jessica Stroup. Liked their performance. But the movie was predictable and just blah.
Fascade F

This movie wasn't too bad...mental glimpses of "Misery" and "Fatal Attraction" gives you this fairly good teen gone to college from former small town...and comes back home to visit...with complications from and old flame which includes his new main… More
This movie wasn't too bad...mental glimpses of "Misery" and "Fatal Attraction" gives you this fairly good teen gone to college from former small town...and comes back home to visit...with complications from and old flame which includes his new main squeeze...see this it was interesting.
Erin C

Decent. Barton was better in this than she was in the O.C. Pretty predictable, and funny that the director is the same one that directs the TV show Teen Mom.
Daisy M

After watching Homecoming, I found it a weak mix between Fatal Attraction and Misery.The plot was nothing new we had seen before, a scholarship was given to Mike, a role for Matt Long, so he came back for Christmas and brought his new girlfriend, Elizabeth. But Mike's ex… More
After watching Homecoming, I found it a weak mix between Fatal Attraction and Misery.The plot was nothing new we had seen before, a scholarship was given to Mike, a role for Matt Long, so he came back for Christmas and brought his new girlfriend, Elizabeth. But Mike's ex girlfriend Shelby, great performance by Misha Barton, in a bad role, she was not happy to see him back with a girlfriend and wanted Elizabeth out of the picture.She hit Elizabeth with her car and left her injured, so she took her in her house to take care of her but as a prisoner.So she could do everything to get Mike back.The ending could have been better. Elizabeth was rescued by Mike. and hit Shelby several times with a helmet, still it appeared she will woke up in the end.So there might be a sequel for this crap? So much in this movie was never clearly explained.
d j

its pretty cool....