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10 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 67Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallTampa Bay TimesSteve PersallEven as Touching Home finds those moments, it's easier to appreciate the stars' dedication to a grass roots project than the project itself.
- 60Boxoffice MagazinePete HammondBoxoffice MagazinePete HammondThe story behind brothers Logan and Noah Miller getting their movie made is almost better than what’s onscreen, but the film is heartfelt and engaging enough to be worthy of attention.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterDespite dialogue devoid of subtext, weaknesses in the screenplay and uneven performances, the story, as rendered, has a disarming innocence.
- 60The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenSuffused with a glow of apple-cheeked nostalgia that often clings to baseball movies. The movie may be set in the present, but its likable clean-cut twins exude more than a whiff of gee-whiz 1950s innocence.
- 60VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyDespite the tale's real-life basis and a solid Ed Harris as their fictive equivalents' alcoholic dad, Touching Home emerges as a formulaic triumph-over-odds tale with too little distinguishing detail.
- 50New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickSometimes painfully sincere male weepie.
- 50Village VoiceVillage VoiceIncidentally, the film has an Inspirational True Story (and tie-in book) behind it, which comes across not at all in the rather formulaic stuff that's actually onscreen.
- 40New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanThere's a fine line between labor of love and vanity project, and this blandly earnest tale straddles it.