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  Review byLencho of the Apes ★★½2

  So! goddamn wholesome! It's like an object-lesson in mid-40s midwestern wholesomeness, it could not be more apple-pie. Almost worth watching as a crash-course reminder of what the 'core values' of that time and that place were imagined to be.

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  Review byDrusilla Adeline ★★

  A dull, racist, misogynistic, casually abusive snoozefest that's absolutely beautiful to look at at times. In that sense, it does in fact capture what it's like growing up in Indiana.

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  Review byRichie Schumann ★★★½

  Real thought this was gonna be a dry one but proves itself to be a very very touching little piece. Form feels little lacking at times but Henry Hathaway has this thing going no doubt, like he frames some amazing shots it’s weird it’ll go from basic to like one of the best shots I’ve seen from him. Can’t say it’s his best but it’s really great at points, sparky is a bastard tho lmfao

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  Review byKen ★★★

  Is this what camp was in the 40s? The main character is named Sparky and the characters say things like “last one there is an old maid!” and “we’re not friends, we’re pals!”

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  Review byMaryLikesMovies ★★★

  Sparke is the most thickheaded boy i’ve ever seen. Poor Char was just tryna catch a man and right in the middle of them rolling around in the grass after a swim and tickling each other he hits her with that “if you had been a boy we would have been the best of friends”
  Bruh.
  You’re right, she’s not a boy.
  She is —in fact— a female.
  Let’s take a moment and look at the advantages of thatunfortunatephenomenon.

  
  
  

  
  Oh, also this movie was about horses. 
  So if you like horses, you *might* like this movie.
  Because of the horses.

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  Review byJumpingfrog ★★★

  One of the seemingly scores of horse racing films made in the thirties and forties. This one is likeable, but pretty mild. Starring newcomers Lon McAllister, Jeanne Crain and June Haver, all manufactured stars who had careers as long as the studio system lasted as well as more practiced hands Walter Brennan and Charlotte Greenwood.
  There isn't much drama in this and the horse going blind, which you would have thought would mark the mid way point and be the obstacle to over come doesn't happen until the last moments.

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  Review byNot James Agee

  July 1, 1944

  Home in Indiana is about adolescent love and harness racing. There are some half-appreciative Technicolor landscapes; there is about as little pleasure in horses as I have ever seen achieved in a horse movie. One of the female adolescents looks attractive in dungarees; another wears a couple of rather extreme bathing suits. None of them act their age or any other.

  
  The Nation

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  Review byKacey Bange ★★½4

  Me, after every single emotionally earnest scene from the teenagers: Erin is from Indiana and as such this is definitely what her high school years were. 

  Erin, I hope you know that I was really nice by not live texting every five minutes about this movie. I’ll seeBreaking Awaysomeday.

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  Review byJessica Pickens ★★★★

  Sweet, precious Lon McCallister

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  Review byPUNQ ★★

  The regular horse drama...

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  Review byrussman ★★★

  Save a horse, ride a driver

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  Review byCam ★★★★

  i’m not into ‘movies’….  i’m into LIFE!!