Home Front

When Blairsville’s Jeremy Feldbusch was deployed to Iraq in 2003, he was a confident 21-year-old with a wrestler's body. Less than four months later, a piece of shrapnel got past his goggles and embedded itself in his frontal lobe, leaving him blind and bedridden. Screened at the 2006 Tribeca Film Fest, Home Front is the heartfelt story of his homecoming. Award-winning New York-based filmmaker Richard Hankin (and editor for Capturing the Friedmans) guides us through this wounded soldier's journey to physical and emotional recovery. He follows the veteran, his parents and his friends for a year as they attempt to re-create a normal life. Eventually he turns toward the Wounded Warrior Project, a support group for disabled Iraqi war vets. A powerful look at the personal cost of war, Hankin goes beyond his preconceptions - and thus shake audiences out of theirs. (Richard Hankin; USA; 2006; 93 min)

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