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Deathlands: Homeward Bound Directed by Joshua Butler Written by James Axler
Gabrielle G. Stanton
Harry WerksmanStarring Vincent Spano
Traci LordsMusic by Christopher Lennertz Cinematography Bruce Worrall Editing by Joshua Butler Distributed by Sci Fi Channel Release date(s) May 17, 2003
Running time 120 min. Country US Language English Deathlands: Homeward Bound is a 2003 Sci Fi Channel television film based loosely on the Deathlands series of books written under the pseudonym of James Axler and published by Gold Eagle Publishing. The film stars Vincent Spano and Traci Lords. It was directed by Joshua Butler.
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Plot summary
In 2084, a nuclear war wasted Earth, making the sky red of chemicals and the former United States of America becomes Deathlands. Breeds of mutants and half-mutants share what was left on Earth with humans. The vile of "Front Royale" is ruled by a good man, but he is killed by his wife Lady Rachel Cawdor, and his evil son Harvey Cawdor kills one of his brothers and blinds one eye of his fifteen year old brother Ryan, who escapes. Twenty years later, the one-eyed leader Ryan Cawdor returns to "Front Royale" with his girlfriend and half-mutant Krysty Worth, his human friend and specialist in weapons JB Dix and the teenage mutant Jak Lauren to face his brother and his stepmother.
Cast
- Ryan Cawdor - Vincent Spano
- Krysty Wroth - Jenya Lano
- J. B. Dix - Cliff Saunders
- Jak Lauren - Nathan Carter
- Harvey Cawdor - Alan C. Peterson
- Lady Rachel Cawdor - Traci Lords (as Traci Elizabeth Lords)
- Jabez Pendragon Cawdor - Max Danger (as Maxwell McCabe)
- Nathan Cawdor - Matthew Currie Holmes
Differences from the novel
While Deathlands: Homeward Bound closely follows the plot of the fifth Deathlands novel, Homeward Bound, it departs in a number of notable ways. Dr. Theophilus Tanner and Lori Quint are completely absent from the film, and Jak Lauren is specifically identified as a mutant, versus simply being an albino as in the novels. J.B. Dix is also changed, being significantly more talkative than his character in the novels, where he is described as a man who "would never use three words when two would do the job." The purpose of redoubts is not clearly explained, and the film makes no mention of the MAT-TRANS facilities typically found in redoubts and used by Ryan and his friends to travel throughout most of the novels.
External links
- Deathlands: Homeward Bound at the Internet Movie Database
- Deathlands, Sci Fi Channel.
Categories:- 2003 television films
- American television films
- English-language films
- Dystopian films
- Post-apocalyptic films
- 2000s science fiction films
- Syfy original films
- Deathlands
- Science fiction film stubs
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