Homer_(film)

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Homer (film)

1970 film

Homer is a 1970 Canadian-American drama film directed by John Trent and starring Don Scardino, Tisa Farrow and Alex Nicol.[2][3][4]

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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.[5]

Plot

A high school graduate, named Homer, experiences the pains of the generation gap and the Vietnam War in the late 1960s while growing up in Schomberg, Wisconsin.

Cast

Filming locations

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Homer (1970)". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. AFI. Retrieved August 17, 2018.
  2. [2]
    Leonard Maltin (1997). Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide. Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, 1997. ISBN 0452279143.
  3. [3]
    Jeremy M. Devine (1999). Vietnam at 24 Frames a Second. University of Texas Press, 1999. ISBN 029271601X.
  4. [4]
    Pierre Véronneau, Piers Handling (1980). Self portrait: essays on the Canadian and Quebec cinemas. Canadian Film Institute, 1980. ISBN 0919096204.
  5. [5]
    Betty Lee, "Fourteen films in the running for Etrog's golden approval". The Globe and Mail, September 19, 1970.


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