The War at Home
Movie • 1996 • Drama
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Jeremy Collier is a Vietnam veteran who has returned home and is struggling to cope with the war experiences that haunt him. He is also at odds with his family, who cannot begin to understand what he has been through. Jeremy's battles with his family finally spiral out of control on Thanksgiving Day, when a bitter secret is revealed
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No, but the main character's romantic interest from before he went to war tells him to leave her alone, and after some awkward and uncomfortable fumbling with trying to hold her hands, he pulls her into a hug that she doesn't seem to care for at first, and kisses the side of her head. After this instance, he seems to respect her desire for him to distance himself from her, and congratulates her on her new relationship
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There is a Thanksgiving dinner, with a roasted turkey featured
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Not excessive, but some blood is shown, and there is a scene where a man is shot in the head, and chunks fly out of the back of his head. It is not graphic, and they do not show up close details of it, though it is talked about after in a somewhat graphic manner
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The adult main character is yelled at, berated, and slapped by his family members. When he finally reaches his breaking point, he becomes verbally aggressive towards his family members, yelling in his mother and sister's face at one point, and eventually holding his family at gunpoint. He is physically thrown from the house and told by his father not to come back
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A voiceover tells the viewer that the main character "is okay", but it is not shown on screen, and the main character seems to have lost everything at the end of what we are shown
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There are explosions and muzzle flashes during the PTSD flashbacks that the main character suffers from
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The main character is shown skipping or denying meals, or eating very little, and attention is brought to it
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The film is set in the 70s, so the people around the main character expect him to simply not have PTSD, and become upset with him for displaying symptoms
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The main character eventually suffers a mental break due to PTSD, and becomes angry and violent towards the end
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There are flashback scenes featuring wartime activities. The main character pulls a gun (later revealed to be unloaded) on his family, and then experiences a PTSD flashback, during which he is shown shooting a man in the head
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Does a parent die?
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The father does not actually die, but the main character is shown having projected his father's face onto the people he had to kill during a flashback to when he was serving in Vietnam
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Is there hate speech?
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70s era slurs are used in reference to the main character's experiences in the Vietnam war, and those he fought against
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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The film's main character is suffering from PTSD due to fighting in Vietnam, and the film is set in the 70s, so the majority of the conflicts revolve around others not understanding what's wrong with him. War-time flashbacks are depicted during his episodes
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No, but the main character is very briefly accused of it. The issue is resolved very quickly, and both people seem to part on good terms
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Alcohol is consumed by the mail character frequently enough that it could be considered a concern
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The main character suffers from PTSD, and has appropriate reactions to his flashbacks. He is shown sweating profusely and not seeming to be able to focus with his eyes, and becomes stiff and unresponsive for a short time after the episodes
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The main character has several PTSD episodes with gunfire and explosions, and he hallucinates his fellow soldiers yelling out, and his sergeant giving orders, though it does not appear that any specific sounds trigger his episodes
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Hand gets cut during a mishap while cutting the Thanksgiving turkey
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There are images of wartime, a hand is cut during a Thanksgiving dinner scene, a bloody rag is thrown at someone on screen
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The mother character often paints herself to be the victim before, during, and after family arguments, and denies having said things that instigated prior arguments
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During one of the main character's PTSD flashbacks, he describes a Vietnam soldier being beaten for information before being killed, and parts of it are displayed on screen
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