Homecoming

Name: Homecoming
Genre: Horror
Released: 2005-12-02
Duration: 58 min
Rating: 6.1
Cast: Thea Gill, Jon Tenney, Terry David Mulligan

Episode aired Dec 2, 2005
Not RatedNot Rated
58m

S1.E6

A hotshot White House speech writer deals with the publicity nightmare of his life when recently deceased soldiers return from beyond the grave.A hotshot White House speech writer deals with the publicity nightmare of his life when recently deceased soldiers return from beyond the grave.A hotshot White House speech writer deals with the publicity nightmare of his life when recently deceased soldiers return from beyond the grave.

6.1/10

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Director
- Joe Dante
Writers
- Mick Garris
- Sam Hamm(teleplay)
- Dale Bailey(short story "Death & Suffrage")
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Awards
- 1 win

Robert Picardo, Jon Tenney, and Daniel Wesley in Homecoming (2005)

Wanda Cannon and Jon Tenney in Homecoming (2005)

Director
- Joe Dante
Writers
- Mick Garris
- Sam Hamm(teleplay)
- Dale Bailey(short story "Death & Suffrage")
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During the campaign for reelection of the President of the US, political consultant David Murch wishes live in a television talk show that a deceased soldier could come back from his grave to vote in the election as a marketing gimmick. Unfortunately, the president uses this in a speech and soon, the soldiers return - with the objective of voting in opposition. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Trivia
At the end, when the zombie soldiers coming out of their graves, the tombstones have the names of veterans of the horror and zombie genre, easy to read are Jacques Tourneur, G.A. Romero ( George A. Romero), Jean Yarbrough, and Delbert Tenney ( 'Del Tenney (I)'). Harder to read are Lucio Fulci, Victor Halperin, and Gordon Douglas. The (readable) graves have this order: Romero and Tenney in the first line, behind them Fulci and Halperin, and in the last line behind Fulci is Tourneur, who is in the middle of Douglas and Yarbrough.

Goofs
Philip Murch's tombstone lists his rank as Lance Corporal. When he returns from the dead, he showing wearing an Army uniform. Lance Corporal is strictly a rank in the Marine Corps.

Connections
References Frankenstein (1931)

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" While sporadically engrossing (including a few effectively tender moments) and humorous, the sledgehammer-obvious satire 'Homecoming' hinges on comes off as forced and ultimately unfulfilling. With material like this, timing is everything (Michael Moore knew to release "Fahrenheit 9/11" before the 2004 elections), and the real tragedy of Dante's film is that it didn't come out 2 years ago, when its message would have carried an energy that would have energized the dissidents further. In 2006, mockery of the well-settled Bush Administration hardly seems as controversially compelling (or imperiled) as it did then."

frankly anyone that could be convinced of anything by a ham fisted zombie flick has questionable intelligence.

and if you didn't notice, michael moore didn't exactly help to defeat bush.

there was nothing engrossing about this film. i just felt disgust at how blatant and frankly stupid the film was, it was painful to watch. if you are going to do something like this you need a bit of wit. sadly this has none. a poorly done satire actually has the opposite of its intended effect. as they say, with friends like these who needs enemies.

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