I guess I shouldn’t have gotten my hopes up with this film. I recently was reading my daily news and saw that this movie was coming out, but it turns out it was released in 2008. It must have made the news because of it’s release on Lifetime, which is where I watched it last night. I had high hopes because this one of the only acting gigs I had seen Mischa Barton in since her OC days – and the film was directed by Morgan Freeman. He’s a pretty decent actor, yes – but how was he has a director? So-so.

In the story of Homecoming, Mike [Matt Long] and Shelby [Mischa Barton] were the small town’s perfect couple. Everyone knew who they were and everyone thought that they would stay together forever. We all know that that rarely ever happens, but a girl can hope. Mike went away to college and one year later he brought back his new girlfriend Elizabeth [Jessica Stroup] for the homecoming ceremony. Shelby, however, still thought that they were together during the school year- weird. Anyways, Shelby tries to win back Mike while he’s home and kidnaps Elizabeth even though that wasn’t her initial plan.

Basically, Shelby’s crazy. I ended up rooting for Elizabeth the whole time naturally and developed a like/hate relationship w/ Mike. I expected Mischa to prove her acting skills in this film, but she kind of just let me down. Maybe it’s because I’ll always see her as Marissa Cooper. She may have done some crazy things in her time, but  Marissa Cooper would never kidnap any girlfriend of Ryan’s.