Home of the Brave

(USA, 2006, 106 minutes)

The troubled return home of four American soldiers from the Iraq war. Well meaning melodrama that does a disservice to its worthy premise with scripting and dialogue lifted straight off a third-rate TV movie.

A Metropolitan Films release. Millennium Films presents a Winkler-Cowan production, in association with Emmett-Furla Films. Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Jessica Biel, Brian Presley, Curtis Jackson; Chad Michael Murray. Directed by Irwin Winkler; produced by Avi Lerner, George Furla, Randall Emmett, Irwin Winkler, Rob Cowan; screenplay by Mark Friedman, based on a story by Mark Friedman and Irwin Winkler; music by Stephen Endelman; director of photography (Technicolor, widescreen), Tony Pierce-Roberts; production designer, Warren Alan Young; costume designer, Karyn Wagner; film editor, Clayton Halsey.