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Lead Me Home

Play trailer Poster for Lead Me Home PG-13,  2021,  39m,  Documentary Play Trailer Watchlist
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Fighting just to survive, California's homeless population suffers as housing costs soar, pushing more of the disadvantaged onto the streets.
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Randy Myers San Jose Mercury News Dec 3, 2021
3.5/4
Sprinkled in are officials' comments but this is mostly the unhoused's story to tell and that's a smart decision. Go to Full Review
Jason Flatt But Why Tho? Jan 16, 2023
7.5/10
Lead Me Home is the best demonstration of how inhumane the treatment of America’s homeless population truly is...it cuts critically at the heart of one of the United States’ greatest shames. Go to Full Review
Barbara Shulgasser Common Sense Media Feb 4, 2022
4/5
Without telling the audience what to think, without a narrator explaining and intervening, the directors take us into the difficult and heart-breaking lives of people marginalized by bad luck, mental health problems, drug use, class, race, and gender. Go to Full Review
Jade Budowski Decider Dec 13, 2021
Lead Me Home is a necessary, heartrending piece of art, a vital, poetic examination of the housing crisis and the very real people it affects every day. Go to Full Review
Dennis Harvey 48 Hills Dec 10, 2021
A sort of multi-city symphony on a theme of ever-increasing division and hardship in the wealthiest nation on Earth, this poetical document is now playing on Netflix. Go to Full Review
Yvonne Bohwongprasert Bangkok Post Dec 10, 2021
Lead Me Home is one of Emmy-winning directors Jon Shenk and Pedro Kos's most compelling works and braces humanity in its entirety, weaving personal stories with aerial vistas, time-lapses and evocative details of contemporary American urban life. Go to Full Review
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Pedro Kos

Director

Jon Shenk

Director

Richard Berge

Producer

Bonni Cohen

Producer

Serin Marshall

Producer

Jody Allen

Executive Producer

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Synopsis Fighting just to survive, California's homeless population suffers as housing costs soar, pushing more of the disadvantaged onto the streets.
Director
Pedro Kos, Jon Shenk
Producer
Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen, Serin Marshall
Production Co
Actual Films
Rating
PG-13 (Brief Strong Language|Thematic Elements)
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 30, 2021
Runtime
39m
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