Product Details

• Actors: Tommy Wiseau, Greg Sestero
• Format: Color, Digital Sound, DTS Surround Sound, Original recording remastered, Special Edition, Surround Sound, Widescreen, NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Wiseau-Films
• DVD Release Date: December 15, 2004
• Run Time: 45 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0006V4D38
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #132,328 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Homeless In America" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Homelessness up close, January 11, 2008

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Kerry Walters (Lewisburg, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Homeless In America (DVD)

I screened this film because I wanted to know if it's appropriate for a class in peace and justice studies I teach. It is. Directors Tommy Wiseau and Kaya Redford have put together a very nice collage of homeless people from the streets of LA.

I emphasize the word "collage." If you're looking for facts and figures and analysis, you won't find it in this film. Analysis and data are important--crucial--but their problem is that they tend to distract us from the faces of real people. "Homeless in America" fills that gap by introducing us to a number of very real folks. The film is deliberately impressionistic, and consequently has a strong visual impact that sticks with the viewer.

Some of the unforgettable people interviewed in the film: There's the 70-year-old man, black as ebony, beard snow white, who declaims with the eloquence and fire of a prophet. There's Roy, a baseball-capped man who seems emotionally disturbed, who says that he's on the street because he's running from his problems, but wonders why society isn't a bit more ready to help him now that he wants to quit running. There's the quietly sobbing black girl who lives in a makeshift in a freeway tunnel. An intruder has just stabbed a friend of hers. There's the attractive middle-age woman who claims that she was once the wife of an NBA player, a multimillionare. Who knows if she's telling the truth? Who cares? There's the LA chief of police, who talks in the clipped language of the bureaucrat about the "issue" of homelessness, and there's the aging and weary-looking director of the LA Mission who says, grief and frustration burring his voice, that we need to learn how to love better in this country.

All in all, a good cinematic introduction to homelessness. Especially recommended for middle class folks who generally won't get within a block of a street person.

33 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I miss Tommy, February 25, 2008

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Daniel Munro (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Homeless In America (DVD)

First off, Tommy Wisseu is not in this film at all. A real disappointment. Second the premise is, "lets film a bunch of homeless people and call it a documentary." Third, at times the picture goes out of focus because the camera guy can't figure out what he's doing. Fourth, the sound is terrible at times because they film under overpasses and in crowded areas and don't know how to filter it out in post production. And lastly the interviews contradict one another, a man says he is fine living on the street and sees no reason to go to a homeless shelter, then we cut to a woman who is probably an actress saying "no one chooses to be homeless."

DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY THIS IS NOT THE ROOM

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Homeless in America, February 21, 2007

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Freud - See all my reviews

This review is from: Homeless In America (DVD)

I wanted to find a film that captured the plight of the homeless to present to my college class.

I found the film to be somewhat on track but so much more could have been depicted. In my opinion it would be better to present to high school students.

It does, however, drive home the point that many Americans are a heartbeat (or a paycheck away) from being homeless and that there is so much more that could be done.