Homefront (film)

Movie
German title	Home front
Original title	Home front
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	2013
length	100 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16 ; JMK 14
Rod
Director	Gary Fleder
script	Sylvester Stallone
production	Sylvester Stallone ; Kevin King Templeton ; John Thompson ; Les Weldon
music	Mark Isham
camera	Theo van de Sande
cut	Padraic McKinley
occupation
	Jason Statham : Phil Broker; James Franco : Tomorrow “Gator” Bodine; Winona Ryder : Sheryl Marie Mott; Kate Bosworth : Cassie Bodine Klum; Marcus Hester : Jimmy Klum; Rachelle Lefèvre : Susan Hetch; Frank Grillo : Cyrus Hanks; Clancy Brown : Sheriff Keith Rodrigue; Izabela Vidovic : Maddy Broker; Chuck Zito : Danny "T" Turrie; Omar Benson Miller : Teedo;

Homefront is an American action - thriller by Gary Fleder from the year 2013, which on the book by Chuck Logan based. The leading roles are Jason Statham , James Franco , Winona Ryder and Kate Bosworth .

action

The DEA agent and widower Phil Broker withdraws after an undercover assignment in which he arrests drug lord Danny T and in which his son is shot. He wants to live anonymously with his daughter Maddy in a small town in Louisiana .

But after Maddy defends himself against bullying at the school, Phil clashes with the quarreling parents Jimmy and Cassie. Cassie doesn't want to go unpunished with the humiliation and puts her brother Gator, a resident drug dealer, on Phil. Gator breaks into Broker's house. He learns that Phil is a former undercover agent and has hopes that by revealing his whereabouts, he will be able to use Danny T's distribution network.

Gator contacts Cyrus, a sidekick of Danny T, through Sheryl. Phil contacts former coworkers who inform him of Cassie's and the drug dealers' connections, so he's forewarned. Cyrus storms Phil Broker's house with some men, all of which are killed by Phil. Maddy is kidnapped in a boat during the raid on Sheryl's house and taken to Gator. But he does not want to be associated with the attack. But then Jimmy and Cassie show up to let Gator understand that kidnapping is not what they wanted. Gator shoots his sister Cassie in the stomach and escapes with Maddy. However, at that moment, Phil appears at Gator's house, and they both engage in a chase that ends on a bridge. Gator is beaten up and almost shot by broker; however, Broker thinks back to the last second when he looks into his daughter's face and lets him live.

In the end, Phil visits Danny T in prison and tells him that he will take care of him when he is released.

Reviews

"" Homefront "starts explosively, but thriller expert Gary Fleder [...] and screenwriter Sylvester Stallone [...] mainly rely on subtle tension - with well-dosed outbursts of violence. Soon the viewer is as electrified as Kate Bosworth, who, as Bodine's drug-addicted sister, lets the argument escalate and thus triggers a chain reaction with serious consequences. Jason Statham is doing well as usual, but the secret star of the film is James Franco [...] as a charismatic villain. An action film without the eccentrically exaggerated villains - you don't get that too often either. Conclusion: Subtle thrills and brute force - a gripping action thriller that is also convincing in terms of performance. "

- Cinema.de

“Sylvester Stallone wrote the book. James Franco plays a dealer, Winona Ryder a prostitute and Jason Statham a foreign body. Nothing fits together in the film 'Homefront'. "

- Ronald Bluhm, Die Welt

"Gary Fleder's" Homefront "is the nightmare of all pacifists and Waldorf school parents! Because in this homage to the uncompromisingly reactionary action cinema of the 70s and 80s, written by Sylvester Stallone (!), Not only an ex-undercover cop with targeted punches and headshots stands up for his rights, but also his cute 9-year-old daughter [ ...]. But whoever accepts such a vigilante-justice-is-the-right-of-every-righteous-American attitude as part of the genre canon, at least in this country for a long time, can have a lot of fun with "Homefront". Because not only does Gary Fleder know no mercy in the action scenes [...], he also spices up the tried and tested plot with enough small peculiarities to avoid the already often held screen duel between the law-and-order loner and the numerically superior redneck gangsters to give the necessary freshness. [...] Conclusion: Jason Statham Festival for fans of straight ass kicking action - everyone else should stay outside. "

- Christoph Petersen, Filmstarts.de

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Release certificate for Homefront . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2013 (PDF; test number: 142 485 K).
↑ Age rating for Homefront . Youth Media Commission .
↑ The Cinema Review on Homefront. Retrieved November 22, 2015 .
↑ Ronald Bluhm: James Franco cooks drugs and is mentally ill. welt.de, January 22, 2014, accessed on January 28, 2013 .
↑ Christoph Petersen: The film starts criticism for Homefront. Retrieved February 18, 2014 .

[FSK-1] Release certificate for Homefront . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2013 (PDF; test number: 142 485 K).

[JMK-2] Age rating for Homefront . Youth Media Commission .

[3] The Cinema Review on Homefront. Retrieved November 22, 2015 .

[DFM-4] Ronald Bluhm: James Franco cooks drugs and is mentally ill. welt.de, January 22, 2014, accessed on January 28, 2013 .

[fs-5] Christoph Petersen: The film starts criticism for Homefront. Retrieved February 18, 2014 .