Homer is a 1970 Canadian-American drama film directed by John Trent and starring Don Scardino, Tisa Farrow and Alex Nicol.
The film was entered in competition at the 22nd Canadian Film Awards in 1970, although its inclusion was controversial; it was shot in Canada with a Canadian director, but financed by an American studio and told a story set in the United States, resulting in some debate about whether the film was sufficiently Canadian.Betty Lee, "Fourteen films in the running for Etrog's golden approval". The Globe and Mail, September 19, 1970.
Plot A high school graduate, named Homer Edwards, experiences the pains of the generation gap and the Vietnam War in the late 1960s while growing up in Schomberg, Wisconsin.
Cast Don Scardino as Homer Edwards Tisa Farrow as Laurie Grainger Alex Nicol as Mr. Harry Edwards Lenka Peterson as Mrs. Edwards Tim Henry as Eddie Cochran Tom Harvey as Mr. Jess Tibbet Jan Campbell as Mrs. Grainger Arch McDonnell as Mr. Grainger Ralph Endersby as Hector Murray Westgate as Mr. Cochran Mona O'Hearn as Mrs. Cochran Bob Warner as Sheriff Trudy Young as Sally Allen Doremus as Minister
Filming locations Schomberg, Ontario Unionville, Ontario Palgrave, Ontario
Critical reception A contemporary review in The Village Voice described the film as having "an excessive amount of music and its fair share of gratuitous lyrical photography" and "small talk [that] is over-extended and becomes a kind of slack parody," but noted that "Tim Henry's performance as the doomed young man is miraculous, and there is no way of knowing how much of it is due to genius and how much to luck." A review of the film in TV Guide described it as "[w]ell meaning though cliché," "riddled with cliched shots of sunsets, sex scenes in silhouette, and dope smoking," and that the "direction is far too simplistic, as is the script."
See also List of American films of 1970
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