Miles from Home
A tale of lost innocence
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 37 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: May 29, 2012
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Urban Home Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Meagan Good, Ty Hodges & Tasha Smith | |
| Directed by | Ty Hodges | |
| Screenwriting by | Ty Hodges |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 4/5 --
Two women reach out to each other from opposite sides of the socioeconomic divide in Jeffrey M. Togman's marvelously revealing documentary about the psychology of poverty.
New York Times
Rating: 2.5/4 --
With minimal hysteria, the film illuminates both the emotional deprivation ghetto life can perpetuate and the legit forces of good out to ease that pain.
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Slant Magazine
[Home] reveals the fragility of hope in survivalist mentalities pre-programmed to expect the worst.
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Variety
Warmhearted but never sentimental or condescending, Home finally proves most affecting as an unsparing glimpse into the psychology of poverty.
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Village Voice
Uneven but generally effective drama has his teenage protag at a crossroads between street life and the straight-and-narrow.
Variety
Rating: 3/4 --
The layers unravel to reveal deeper, genuine, and believable heart--which for all the violence, anger, and darkness depicted is Hodges' boldest, bravest accomplishment of all.
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TheMovieReport.com
Rating: 3/4 --
First-time filmmaker Jeffrey M. Togman's documentary examines a complex issue -- the apparent intractability of poverty -- through the revealingly narrow perspective of one woman's efforts to improve her family's lot through homeownership.
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TV Guide
Product Description:
Actor Ty Hodges made his debut behind the camera with this gritty drama about a young man struggling to lift himself from a life on the streets. Abandoned by his father, and saddled with a drug-addicted mother, Miles (Hodges) looks for acceptance elsewhere and falls into the world of prostitution. Fortunately, he soon meets a well-adjusted young woman who gives him hope for the future. MILES FROM HOME also stars Meagan Good and Stacey Meadows Jr.
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- UPC: 832615002007
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