Such lessons are vital reminders of the toll combat takes on combatants and the military’s deficient support for the discharged. As directed by Irwin Winkler, the film alternates between being clunky, stagnant, and downright embarrassing-every interaction equipped with a message about servicemen and women’s difficulties in adjusting to everyday life after enduring the terrifying, traumatizing horrors of war. Without an ounce of ingenuity but plenty of moralizing, Home of the Brave repackages Patricia Foulkrod’s The Ground Truth-a piercing documentary about vets’ struggles to reintegrate into society once home from Iraq-into a laughably clichéd, melodramatic, Oscar-courting prestige pic.
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