Home Front

This respectful documentary examines the post-traumatic lives of soldiers returning home from Iraq. The film is able to show small town America and the effects of a wounded son on a close family. It acknowledges the thousands of wounded Iraqi veterans, a number often overshadowed by a mounting death toll. But this film is not about war. It never pushes for an answer, and doesn't exploit the drama of war, but instead allows the people it documents to exist in their daily lives. In doing so we are provided a human portrait of the aftermath of war. The lives of every member of a family is effected by a wounded veteran. And the veterans themselves must wrestle with many personal issues from their wounds, to life outside the battlefront, but they find outlets to focus their new lives. America is full of heroes and good, honest people, and this film shows that without fanfare, but with respect.