Review of Home Room (2002) by Laurence C — 19 Oct 2008
Reasonably developping its characters but ultimately rather thin in purpose, Home Room is a convincing but sluggish drama in which fundamentally opposite personalities collide in the aftermath of a tragic school shooting.
Paul F. Ryan prefers showing us how true human beings react to the horrible event rather than superficially covering the event. Truly, there's nothing warm and fuzzy here, just honest emotion from two very good young actresses.
Problem is, besides that honest emotion, there's not much else here-- at least, for the heavy 130 minutes of running time. Deanna and Alicia are fascinating to watch interact, that's for sure (the morgue scene is particularly revelatory), but ultimately, it could have lost a good twenty minutes and still carry the same strength.
Not necessary, just interesting... but worth watching, that's for sure.
This review of Home Room (2002) was written by Laurence C on 19 Oct 2008.
Home Room has generally received positive reviews.
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