Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Homecoming (2009)

Mike and his new girlfriend Elizabeth return to his hometown over college break. Mike was a high school football star and there is a ceremony to retire his jersey. The problem is that Mike's exgirlfriend Shelby still thinks they are a couple, even though he broke up with her before he went away to college and hasn't spoken to her in months.

Mike and Elizabeth are invited to hang out with Mike's friends. Elizabeth wants to get to know his friends, so against Mike's better judgement, they head over to the bowling alley, which is owned by Shelby.

When Mike rebuffs Shelby's advances and tells her he has a girlfriend, Shelby feigns friendship to Elizabeth by buying her a drink. She continues to ply Elizabeth with liquor, resulting in Elizabeth being very drunk by the nights end. Since she doesn't want to meet Mike's parents in this state, she decides to stay at a motel on the edge of town.

After Mike drops her off, she finds out the motel is full. Her cell phone can't get any reception so she starts walking the four miles to the next motel and is accidentally hit by a car which turns out to be driven by Shelby.

When Shelby realizes who it is, she takes her home rather than to the hospital, where Elizabeth becomes Shelby's prisoner under the guise of nursing her back to health. Shelby says she told Mike about her, but Mike never calls or comes by and Elizabeth starts to suspect there is a problem.

Meanwhile Mike is frantic trying to find Elizabeth. Shelby uses Elizabeths' phone to text Mike that she doesn't want to be in the relationship and has gone home. Mike won't believe Elizabeth would do that, but everyone else thinks he needs to accept he's been dumped. Shelby uses this time to try to get back together with Mike.

This is a creepy movie as the thought of being held captive by a nutjob is terrifying. However its reminded me of a teenaged version of the Stephen King novel/film, Misery.

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