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Homecoming
Besessen - Fesseln der Eifersucht

USA 2009
produced by
Bingo Gubelmann, Bill Papariella, Austin Stark, James M. Young, Nuala Barton (executive), Benji Kohn (executive), Chris Papavasiliou (executive) for Animus Films, Paper Street Films
directed by Morgan J.Freeman
starring Mischa Barton, Jessica Stroup, Matt Long, Michael Landes, Allen Williamson, Joshua Elijah Reese, Nick Pasqual, Joe Forgione, Alex Hooper, Byrdie Bell, Amanda Jane Cooper, Denise Dal Vera, Danielle Simone, Mary Griffin, Emily Martin, Olivia Duball, Benjamin Jeran McGinn, Logan C. Sayre
written by Katie L. Fetting, music by Jack Livesey

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Mike (Matt Long) is sort of the homecoming king in his little hometown in midwestern USA, the former football star who has ... gone to college. So for this year's homecoming festivities, Mike brings his new girlfriend Elizabeth (Jessica Stroup) along - much to the dismay of his local ex Shelby (Mischa Barton), who's still head over heels in love with him. Eventually though, on their first evening, Mike and Elizabeth get seperated, and by pure accident, Shelby runs her over by car. Now this is Shelby's big chance, as she takes Elizabeth back to her house, slowly nurses her back to health but also makes her her prisoner, keeps her out of everyone else's sight, spreads rumours that Elizabeth wanted to leave Mike, and tries to get back together with him in Elizabeth's stead, even if he refuses her time and again.

Elizabeth makes numerous attempts to escape Shelby's clutches, but to no avail (also due to her quite serious injuries), and as if to disquieten her, she finds evidence that Shelby has indeed killed her mother she claims she has nursed to death. The situation gets more and more desperate for Elizabeth, especially after Shelby cold-bloodedly kills a cop (Michael Landes) who has managed to find Elizabeth, by now all tied up in the basement.

Eventually though, Mike finds out what's going on rather by accident, and he rushes to Elizabeth's rescue and saves her from crazy Shelby, whose head Elizabeth beats to a pulp in the showdown.

 

What a waste of time!

This could have been an ok psycho thriller with an interesting if not totally original story (that could have done with some doctoring though because the main point - why does homicidal Shelby keep Elizabeth alive? - is never explained) and with a few swipes at allegedly wholesome smalltown USA.

As it is though, it's nothing of all that, it's pretty much a hardly disguised rip-off of the (slightly overrated) Misery, with Mischa Barton proving above everything else that she is no Kathy Bates - sure, Ms Barton goes through the motions, but does so without any real conviction, and fails to create any sympathies with her character on the audience's behalf that are vital for a film like this to work. Also, Jessica Stroup as damsel-in-distress is less than compelling, but in all fairness, her goodie-two-shoes role is written way too flatly to give her much room to develop her character. The worst of the bunch though is Matt Long, whose acting throughout is nonexistent and who is so uncharismatic one wonders how any woman could ever fall for him, let alone two.

The actors and actresses though are not the only ones who let down the film, it should be pointed out that everybody also has to fight against a rather lame script that does away with all the subtleties a story of this kind could offer, and leaves all the characters disappointingly one-dimensional when they could have developed in so many ways ...

Another big let-down of the film is the directorial effort: Apparently Morgan J.Freeman is totally unable to create something even remotely resembling a creepy atmosphere, and his depiction of smalltown USA with its cheesy homecoming rituals is done in such a picture postcad style one wonders if the man has invested any thoughts into his script apart from the purely functional - and even for a functional or hack directorial job, Homecoming is rather lame.

Better stay away from this one!

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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