Home of the Brave DVD

Samuel L. Jackson	...	Will Marsh
	Jessica Biel	...	Vanessa Price
	Brian Presley	...	Tommy Yates
	Christina Ricci	...	Sarah Schivino
	50 Cent	...	Jamal Aiken (as Curtis Jackson)
	Chad Michael Murray	...	Jordan Owens
	Joyce M. Cameron	...	Grace Owens
	Victoria Rowell	...	Penelope Marsh
	Wes Deitrick	...	Older Vet
	Jeffrey Nordling	...	Cary
	Jhon Goodwin	...	Police Sergeant
	Vyto Ruginis	...	Hank Yates
	Nike Imoru	...	Dr. Barbara Jaric
	Sam Jones III

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When Army medic Will Marsh (Samuel L. Jackson, who does his best to rise above the level of the material) and soldiers Vanessa Price (Jessica Biel) and Tommy Yates (Brian Presley) return to Spokane, Washington, major readjustment problems loom, mostly due to a chaotic ambush in a small Iraqi town (occurring less than two weeks before they were to be sent home, the incident is so unsurprising that anyone could have seen it coming). Will and his angry teenage son wage their own war, while Dad takes to the bottle; Vanessa's learning to cope with a prosthetic hand, while Tommy's grieving over the best buddy who died in the ambush and the loss of his job, girlfriend, and self-respect. Those matters and the clichéd, unconvincing way in which they're handled, along with the film's refusal to take a strong stand either for or against the war, obscure the potentially much more interesting issues. Are these soldiers patriots, or merely pawns? Were they doing their righteous duty by serving in this conflict, or were they victims sent off to suffer and perhaps die by a bunch of men in suits who never saw a minute of combat themselves? Other home-from-war films, from 1946's The Best Years of Our Lives to 1978's Coming Home to 1989's Born on the Fourth of July, have dealt with these and other issues a good deal more effectively than the earnest and well-intentioned but not very compelling Home of the Brave.