Rating: NR
Genre:
Horror
Release Date: 07/11/2006
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1/DDS2.0
Run Time: 59 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Anchor Bay
Director
Joe Dante stirred up a great deal of interest in
Showtime's
Masters of Horror series with his bluntly anti-Operation Iraqi Freedom
political satire,
Homecoming, scripted by
Sam Hamm. An unnamed president is running for reelection during a divisive war, and one of his speechwriters,
David Murch (
Jon Tenney), goes on TV to speak with
talk show host
Marty Clark (
Terry David Mulligan) and strident right-wing sexpot
Jane Cleaver (
Thea Gill of
Queer as Folk). Another guest is
Janet Hofstader (
Beverly Breuer), the
Cindy Sheehan-like mother of a fallen soldier, who demands to know what her son died for.
Murch gets a bit teary-eyed and explains that he lost his older brother in Vietnam. "Believe me," he tells the grieving mom, "if I had one wish, I would wish for your son to come back, because I know he would tell us how important this struggle is."
Cleaver is so impressed with
Murch's handling of the situation that she takes him out for a drink later, picks his brain, and eventually seduces him. The
Karl Rove-like
Kurt Rand (
Robert Picardo) interrupts their tryst, calling to let
Murch know that the president plans to make his line part of his stump speech. Well, as they say, be careful what you wish for. Soon, the soldiers killed in the war do start returning from the dead, and it doesn't go the way
Murch predicted. They're not back to feast on the living, but unhappily for the president and his supporters, they just want a chance to vote in the upcoming election. "We'll vote for anyone who ends this war," one explains. The spin machine goes into overdrive, but the dead are determined to make their voice heard.
~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide
;)
