Highest-Rated Movies about 'Hometown', Sort by Popularity

Strike (2019), Family (2018), Blue Ruin (2013), Everybody Knows (2018), The Coming War on China (2016), Happiest Season (2020), The Way Back (2020), The Trip to Italy (2014) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Hometown movies.

#2. Family (2018)

Storyline: Kate Stone is career-focused with a brash attitude that keeps relationships at an arm's length. When her estranged brother calls asking her to baby-sit her tween niece Maddie, Kate reluctantly agrees to help. But baby-sitting overnight unexpectedly turns into a week, and Kate's life spins into chaos. As Maddie reveals stories of being bullied and of wanting to run away and be a Juggalo, the two form a unique bond.

Plot Keywords: executive, brother, niece, neighbor, principal, teacher, hilarious ...

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#5. The Coming War on China (2016)

Storyline: The Coming War on China is John Pilger's 60th film for ITV. Pilger reveals what the news doesn't - that the United States and the world's second economic power, China (both nuclear armed) are on the road to war. Pilger's film is a warning and an inspiring story of resistance.—jacquiedwards

Plot Keywords: doctor, father, airy, charming, emotional, heartwarming, lighthearted ...

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#6. Happiest Season (2020)

Storyline: Meeting your girlfriend's family for the first time can be tough. Planning to propose at her family's annual Christmas dinner - until you realize that they don't even know she's gay - is even harder. When Abby (Kristen Stewart) learns that Harper (Mackenzie Davis) has kept their relationship a secret from her family, she begins to question the girlfriend she thought she knew.

Plot Keywords: lesbian, mother, father, sister, ex-girlfriend, politician, ex-boyfriend ...

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#7. The Way Back (2020)

Storyline: Back in high school, Jack Cunningham had everything going for him. A basketball phenom, he could have punched his ticket to college or even the pros, but, instead, he chose to walk away from the game, forfeiting his future. Jack's glory days are long gone...but, as it turns out, not forgotten. Years later, he gets the chance to take back his life when he is asked to coach the struggling basketball team at his alma mater. Jack reluctantly accepts, surprising no one more than himself, and as the boys start to come together as a team and win, he may get his last shot at redemption.—Warner Bros

Plot Keywords: basketball coach, basketball player, alcoholic, team member, inspiring, passionate, intense ...

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#8. The Trip to Italy (2014)

Storyline: Years after their successful restaurant review tour of Northern Britain, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are commissioned for a new tour in Italy. Once again, the two comedy buddies/rivals take the landscape as well as the cuisine of that country in a trip filled with witty repartee and personal insecurities. Along the way, their own professional and personal lives comes in as these slightly older men's friendship comes through.

Plot Keywords: mother, woman, son, airy, amusing, moving, emotional ...

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#10. Standing Up, Falling Down (2019)

Storyline: A comedy about the unlikely friendship that kindles between a struggling stand-up comedian from L.A., forced to move back home to Eastern Long Island with his tail between his legs, and a tragically flawed, but charming and charismatic, alcoholic dermatologist. Discovering to be kindred spirits, each helps the other find healing, in addition to the confidence to face the "failures" in their lives.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: comedian, alcoholic, hilarious, heartwarming, endearing, hometown, small town ...

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#11. Cosmonaut (2009)

Storyline: Late '50s to early '60s, when the space war between the Soviet and US was fiercely going on, a fifteen-year-old member of the communist party, Luciana, develops her ideals while living with her bourgeois stepfather, and among male chauvinists in a communist group in Rome. Her only friend is her brother Arturo, who dreams of going to space but is unable to do so due to his epilepsy.—Pusan International Film Festival

Plot Keywords: teenager, communist, classmate, younger brother, idealist, girl, offbeat ...

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#12. Leaves of Grass (2009)

Storyline: The lives of a set of identical twins, one an Ivy League philosophy professor, the other a small-time and brilliant marijuana grower, intertwine when the professor is lured back to his Oklahoma hometown for a doomed scheme against a local drug lord.

Plot Keywords: brother, local, drug lord, college professor, eccentric, rabbi, emotional ...

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#13. Just Before I Go (2014)

Storyline: Ted Morgan has been treading water for most of his life. After his wife leaves him, Ted realizes he has nothing left to live for. Summoning the courage for one last act, Ted decides to go home and face the people he feels are responsible for creating the shell of a person he has become. But life is tricky. The more determined Ted is to confront his demons, to get closure, and to withdraw from his family, the more Ted is yanked into the chaos of their lives. So, when Ted Morgan decides to kill himself, he finds a reason to live.

Plot Keywords: depressed person, suicidal person, love interest, old friend, stranger, nephew, amusing ...

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#15. HouseSitter (1992)

Storyline: Davis builds his dream house and presents it to Becky with a proposal of marriage. She turns him down. He leaves the house, still with a ribbon running around it and returns to the city, terribly smitten with Becky. He meets Gwen who has an interesting relationship with the truth. He spends the night with her, but leaves while she is sleeping. She takes his description of the house, searches it out, and moves in. The residents of Davis' home town become curious and she invents a marriage, a courtship, and and an entire history. Davis' parents meet Gwen and are immediately taken with her. By the time Davis finds out what has happened, 2 things have happened, the whole town thinks he's married, and Becky tells him that Gwen has made her see him in a whole new light. Gwen and Davis agree that she can pretend to be his wife and get free rent while Davis works on Becky until they can announce a divorce. The trouble is that no one in the town wants them to separate and keep trying to help ...

Plot Keywords: architect, boyfriend, girlfriend, con artist, waitress, love interest, madcap ...

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