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Homer

1970 · 87 min

A gentle, meandering coming-of-age slice of late-sixties small-town life, funny and wistful by turns, more drift than story.

Directed by: John Trent
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Don Scardino, Alex Nichol, Tisa Farrow

Overview: High school graduate Homer experiences the pains of the generation gap and the Vietnam War in the late 1960s, while growing up in Schomberg, Wisconsin.

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Directed by: John Trent
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Don Scardino, Alex Nichol, Tisa Farrow

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 1 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: coming-of-age
family
war
identity
freedom
Places: small town
school
countryside
Era: period
Audience: teen
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	2
Horror	0
Humour	4
Realism	7
Romance	3
Tension	4
Darkness	5
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: comedy
Directed by: John Trent
Written by: Claude Harz
Starring: Don Scardino, Alex Nichol, Tisa Farrow, Lenka Peterson, Tim Henry, Tom Harvey, Jan Campbell, Arch McDonnell
Music: Don Scardino
Cinematography: Laszlo George
Runtime: 87 min
Country: United States of America, Canada
Languages: English

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