Homefront

Plot synopsis:
Two years after the raids of a gang's meth lab where his cover was broken, former DEA Agent Phil Broker (Jason Statham) and his daughter Maddy (Izabela Vidovic) have moved to a small Louisiana town where Maddy's deceased mother grew up. Maddy gets into a schoolyard fight with a bully named Teddy Klum; when Broker comes to the school, Teddy's hostile father, Jimmy (Marcus Hester), picks a fight with him and loses. Cassie Klum (Kate Bosworth) later asks her brother, a drug dealer named Gator Bodine (James Franco), to scare Broker.
Broker fights off a few of Gator's thugs at a gas station when they threaten him. While he and Maddy later go horseback riding, Gator breaks into their house. He deduces from old personnel files that Broker was the undercover cop responsible for the arrest of Danny T (Chuck Zito) in the raid two years earlier. Hoping to get a wider distribution for the drugs he manufactures, Gator tips off Danny T, who sends members of his gang to kill Broker.
Broker finds Gator's meth lab and sabotages it. He is captured and tortured by the same thugs he fought off earlier, but manages to fight them off and escape. As he and Maddy are preparing to leave, the gang members arrive. In the scuffle, Broker manages to kill most of the gang members and Maddy is kidnapped, but not before she calls the police. She uses her cell phone to call her dad and, from her descriptions, Broker realizes that she has been taken to Gator's meth lab.
Cassie arrives at Gator's warehouse with news of the gunfight. When she discovers Maddy there, she accidentally sets off the booby trap that Broker has set up. The lab and much of the warehouse explode, and Gator watches his business go up in flames. A scuffle ensues and Gator shoots Cassie before fleeing with Maddy in his truck. Broker chases him in a police cruiser until they find themselves stuck on a bridge closed off by the sheriff. Broker beats up Gator badly, stopping short of shooting him in front of the police when he notices his daughter watching.
Gator is arrested and Broker later visits Danny T in prison, letting him know that he will be around when Danny T is eventually released.

Tags: romantic

Review:
Great post-WW2 based drama that ABC killed.
Based on the time period after WW2 ended, different families, all somehow connected, strive to get on with their lives despite personal losses.
A very well written, directed, acted and produced show that kept audiences returning each week to see each new episode, only to be canned by ABC.
It returned for a short time (viewer protests), again with ABC abusing it to cut back the ratings so that they could cancel it again without any complaints since no one knew when it came on anymore..
Homefront was a wonderful post WWII drama.
It showed the viewers what life was like after our "boys" came home from the war.
It was a great character study of the post war era, and how things had changed for America and her people.
This was the story younger people had never seen before, because our grandparents and parents couldn't capture it quite the way this series did.
Homefront is powerful television that simply is not seen on TV today.Yes it was a soap opera but it covered all the bases like no other soap ever did.It takes place right after WW II ended in a small town, River Run,Ohio.
Not one actor or actress is miscast, the African-American race is neither ignored nor invisible as so many shows do yet the writers don't beat you over the head with good or bad race relations.Housing shortages,labor problems,foreign war brides,loss of jobs all these topics are covered beautifully in a show that was only on two lousy years!The pairing of couples was also well done with a few pleasant surprises.Kyle Chandler(jeff)& Tammy Lauren(ginger)were only supposed to get together one time with a pregnancy scare involved.They became a breakout super couple that stole the show and whose love affair had us all laughing & crying til they wed on the very last episode.In the meantime an older actor came aboard as a love interest for Jessica Steen(linda) who is Jeff's sister.He immediately clicked with the actress playing her mother and they were paired up and also married and had a baby on the show.Two great surprises.ABC totally mishandled this show and never appreciated the audience that was watching.However ten years later folks still say this was one of the great ones and I'm glad I have my copies of the show to take me back down memory lane.Now if only we could get the show on DVD!!!!.
I really love a lot of the musicals that came out in the late '40's, and this show was a great series set in the same time period.
The Metcalf family included widowed mother Anne, whose eventual love affair with a Jewish union organizer shocked her grown children.
Caroline Hailey was a British war bride, far more ambitious than her American husband, who was content with his life the way it was.The fashions and hairstyles were wonderfully accurate - I remember one of the actresses griping in an interview that they had to wear vintage underwear, and it was uncomfortable!.
BUT, such was the quality of the storyline, script and actors that I DID sit up until all hours to watch it (I couldn't risk setting the vcr to tape it in case they did change the start time that week!).It's now been 10 years since it has screened here and yet I still hold it fondly in my heart as one of my favourites.PLEASE Warner Bros, release this fine series on DVD!!.
I had to wait 9 years for TVLand to fill my need; this time I taped every episode!
"Homefront" offered fully developed, three dimensional characters, gripping storylines that gave different points of view to the same situation.
By the way, if this change in the values continues for another 50 years, where do we end up..?
The changes in our societies have been very rapid since late forties, and this series shows many nostalgic scenes of that good old time.The music track matches this series 100%.
I'ts been ten years since Homefront aired here in the backside of Scandinavia, and coincidentally i've been kicking myself that same amount of time for not taping it when i had a chance.
Period dramas are quite tricky and i'm still baffled that ABC ever showed green light to this one, and two seasons ain't bad in that context.
If somebody would try to launch Homefront nowadays i wouldn't bet a nickel for it lasting even one full season, the times surely have changed that much since early 90's.
This series offered best production values, damn good drama and ensemble cast that was just amazing.
Let's hope that somebody somewhere will get another brainstorm and get this series in DVD format, like the man says in the song, gotta ac-cen-tu-ate the positive.
This show was one of my all time favorites and one of the best shows ever.
Of course, like a number of past shows on the big three networks, it was rewarded for its excellence by cancellation.
This show was a wonderful portrait of mid American life in the post world War 2 period.
Sometimes, I think TV is a device to make us dumb,and that whenever a good show briefly slips through the cracks, and actually tries to , God help us, provoke thought, it is rapidly canceled, unless the writers come up with a clever enough gimmick, like a mysterious Island, or a suburban Mafia family, or a father and son team of defense attorneys.
Homefront - An excellent series from the golden age.
I remember the first time I saw "Homefront".
I have been interested in the music from the WWII-era since I was a little kid (still do) but I really got a close look at the 1940's through this series and it made me even more fascinated by this era.
I felt that this series gave me a more easier and gentle introduction to the life in the 1940's then the old black and white documentaries do.
I really hope this series is launched on DVD really soon so I can show it to other people I know so there will more fans in the future.
Homefront is one of those shows that rang true from beginning to end.
But watching the 48 hour marathon in May raised my opinion of the show--I had forgotten (or didn't appreciate in 1991) how it drew the viewer in to River Run and the Post War world.
The writing was simply excellent; the social issues delineated so clearly without getting too preachy and the characters so "touchable." In a cast of compelling actors, Kyle Chandler was a standout--very endearing as Jeff Metcalf--heartbreakingly sweet, funny, passionate, AND drop dead gorgeous..
Tammy Lauren is one of the best television actresses and Kyle Chandler was too cute for words (he's still pretty cute on Early Edition).
It seems to be a trend in the networks, killing off the good ones because it doesn't meet their demographic, or they monkeyed with the time slot till it died.
Especially this year with the writer's strike, so many shows got cancelled, not because they weren't good, but because of mismanagement.
I would buy Homefront on DVD if I could find it.
This has been made possible through the release of time period marketing for many products used today!
Finally you add in the war buffs and those that are currently on the homefront and waiting to see when and if their loved one's will come home, and wondering what will it be like when they get here!
It is a story of tragedy, hope, failures, and successes, as well as showing everyone that we would all be better off if we looked out for each other instead of back stabbing and climbing over them to get ahead!
I hope for everyone that they finally agree to release this on DVD.
One of the best shows of all time!!!!!.
Set in small town River Run, OH just at the end of WWII this show had it all: drama, comedy, romance, and history.
Homefront was a show that not only entertained, but educated about life in the 1940's with issues such as racism, feminism, polio outbreaks/scares, & worker's rights, not to mention the lifestyle of the men & women and how they dealt with each other.
We even got to see what it was like to see a television set for the first time, to jitterbug, to try to make it as a starlet in Hollywood, and what radio shows were like.I just have to say that Homefront is one of my very favorite shows of all time (and I only have 3)!
This show just never got a good chance to find an audience due to ABC moving it around so much...too bad.
releases it to DVD soon so that more people can enjoy it.
I have a space saved for the Homefront series next to my Lord of the Rings films and my AA winning Best Picture collection.
(Yes, I also have space for the Hobbit should it be made.) :) If the person who owns the right to the DVD for this series reads this, or you know the person please tell them, "Please release the Homefront series on DVD.
If you make DVDs, people will come.
It had humor and drama and such a good story and the cast was outstanding (especially Kyle Chandler, who will always be Jeff Metcalf to me).
I tried to tell people to watch it, but no one could keep up with the time slots.
I declined as usual because every show I started watching at the time was canceled within 13 weeks.
I do not understand why has taken so long to come out on DVD.
It is well acted, well directed, well cast and as short as it was great history of the times.
At the end of each episode I would feel saddened by the fact that I had to wait a whole long week until I could be with them again!
It's a sad thing when the 'suits' decide to cancel quality programs that have been given a lousy time slot, without attempting to move the show to a night when they wouldn't be competing with one of the top 5 highest rated TV shows on air at the time.
Homefront was one of the all-time greatest TV series.
Post-war life had to have been heart-breaking--learning to live without the son/brother/boyfriend who never came home, and this show managed to convey the hope and optimism which were all some were left with.
It showed a time before unions had become commonplace, and work conditions were often unfavorable to workers.
I was terribly disappointed when this series was canceled and often wish it were available for purchase on tape or DVD..
Like other viewers who commented on this show, I felt that it did not have a proper period of time to settle in and become part of people's viewing patterns.
I was almost ten years old when the war ended, old enough to know that much of what "Homefront" depicted was pretty accurate.
I think it tried to move too fast, charging full-speed into soap-opera-ness, with the characters becoming too involved, too fast, in things like union riots, premarital sex and pregnancy, the polio scares of the period, and so on.
There wasn't time for us to get a feel for life on the homefront during and immediately after the war.
It is absolutely one of the best one-hour drama shows ever produced.
The excellent ensemble cast reportedly became too unwieldy for ABC to handle and the production team wasn't skilled enough to keep it all together.A terrific idea and a great execution of the years immediately after WWII, with all of the adjustments that had to be made by everyone who had been living with a war for four or five years.
Very realistic despite the soap opera feel, it dealt with women being fired from their jobs when the men came home, union organizers suspected as communists, opportunistic British war brides, baseball, and religious hypocrisy.Kyle Chandler as the phenom ballplayer looks exactly like a young Lou Gehrig and Kelly Rutherford looks just like a 40s screen siren.
Homefront is an excellent show with an outstanding cast.
The storyline keeps you wanting more and supplies a great history lesson at the same time.
I ditto everyone else's comments on the plot, characters, writing, producing, awards, hair and dress - the whole genre - WWII, union labor, communism, fuller brushes, post prohibition, red lipstick.
Does anyone know where you can get dvds, VHS, whatever of the entire series?
second it has not been released on DVD when all kinds of other less deserving shows have been released.
come on will somebody please give the OK to release this show for DVD.
i often wondered what it was like to live in America after WWII.
come on give the metcalf's and the people of river run a chance to shine again.
Life on the "homefront" just after WWII ends..
Incredible story line depicting life in the 40's complete with social issues, period fashions, interesting characters, etc.
Homefront was an excellent series that somehow went unnoticed by most people.
I remember watching this show for the first time, not really interested in the program (not a wartime/retro buff), but nothing better was on.
After watching the episode though, I remember thinking "Wow, that was REALLY GOOD." Never before, nor since then, have I felt that way about any television program.
I was hooked on the show, but if I recall correctly, some of the story lines towards the end of the series started becoming too outlandish for my taste.
Still, the show had great potential, and was cut off much too soon.It's been too many years since the show was on, but I still remember bits and pieces.
I'll have to watch this show again to see if it is still as good as I remember..
I couldn't remember exactly what year (s) it was on, and I still can't figure out what network it showed on.
I agree - it needs to be released on DVD!
I loved this series when it was on..
I am constantly looking for this series on DVD and have had no luck finding it.
I absolutely loved this series.
I am a huge Johnny Mercer fan and every time I here the opening refrains of his classic hit "Accentuate The Positive" I get nostalgic for my all time favorite TV show, "Homefront!" The only thing more disturbing than ABC's disregard for the the shows many fans during it's short run, is the continued disregard for the small army of viewers clamoring for it's release on DVD.
There was still a world to rebuild, and it took many more years for all of the soldiers to return to the Homefront and that is when much of the real impact of the war set in for those back home.
You just might find that there is a lot more tolerance in Mississippi then you imagine, and much less in Ohio then you think!That all being said, I would love to have even that sorry DVD copy of the show you weren't impressed much by!.
Homefront on DVD.
I recently obtained a complete set of Homefront on DVD from a company in Canada.
I had forgotten the exceptional quality of the writing and acting of this series.
The only comparable series that comes to mind is American Dreams...and, of course that ended prematurely, too.
With Kyle Chandler now on Frdiay Night Lights, it would seem that you could market this enough to make it worth marketing on DVD.One of the best shows on TV.
This was one of the finest written shows on TV bu it seem as if not many people knew about it.
This was one of the finest written shows on TV bu it seem as if not many people knew about it.
This was/is an incredible series that continues to be my all time favorite.
I really hope someone will wake up and release this series on DVD while the market is hot...they are releasing so many TV series, HOMEFRONT deserves to be on the shelves so we can get it back in our homes!
It was like seeing "My So-Called Life" end...just terrible.
Please release this awesome series on DVD..
The characters are so real the stories so well written-please put this on the air again!
My 13&14 year old boys had much more understanding for the plight of single mothers &minorities from watching this quality drama.
I will definitely buy this series if it ever comes out on DVD.
After some internet surfing, I found the "Homefront" series on DVD at ioffer.com.
Before anyone gets excited, the DVD set I received was burned by an amateur from home video tapes recorded off of their TV 15 years ago.
That takes good direction and editing and they made it work in this case.As I started watching this series again I suddenly remembered why I lost interest in it 15 years ago.
When WWII ended in 1945, there was no more fighting so obviously there was no longer a "homefront" either.
Curiously, the first episode of the show "Homefront" begins in 1945 after the war had ended.
Much of the series shows the Davis family being discriminated against by the evil "whites" to the point of being ridiculous and totally absurd if not laughable.
The wildly exaggerated racism in this series makes it look like everyone in Ohio was a KKK member or something.
Devoting a major portion of the series to the racism thing gets really old really quick and its just plain stupid.In yet another ridiculous plot line, the big boss of a local factory (Ken Jenkins) is portrayed as an Ebenezer Scrooge like character who is against pensions and raises and is unconcerned about acid dripping on his employees.