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The Home Teachers
The Home Teachers is a 2004 comedy film written by John
Moyer and directed by Kurt Hale. The Home Teachers is a
Reception
comedy distributed by Halestorm Entertainment and in- The Home Teachers was a critical and box office disap-
tended for LDS audiences, or members of The Church of pointment. Critics lambasted its use of slapstick humor
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. and criticized what they perceived as a heavy-handed
plot. The film also suffered from direct comparisons to
Tommy Boy, a successful 1995 film starring Chris Farley,
Plot and David Spade, and Planes, Trains & Automobiles, a 1987
Greg Blazer is a slothful, lazy Latter-day Saint who loves film directed by John Hughes. Many critics felt that The
football so much that he wears football jerseys under Home Teachers borrowed too much from these films, a
his church clothes. Much to his dismay, Greg’s Sunday- concern one professional critic referred to as "verging on
football-watching plans are interrupted by Nelson Park- comedic plagiarism"[2].
er, a faithful, nerdy, stalwart Latter Day Saint who is The Home Teachers was the third film produced and
Greg’s new Home Teaching companion. Together, the distributed by Halestorm Entertainment. Halestorm’s
two men set out to complete their assignment, beginning first two films, The Singles Ward and The R.M., grossed
a journey of slapstick comedy and hijinks that includes $1,250,798 and $1,111,615 at the box office, respectively.
Greg falling through a ceiling while wearing a wedding Such similar box office grosses indicated a trend for
dress, dressing up like a deer, and accidentally dancing Halestorm releases. However, The Home Teachers, de-
with a dead grandfather at his own funeral. spite being produced and distributed by the same source,
grossed $196,123 during its theatrical run. It was less
Background than 16% the gross of The Singles Ward and the lowest
grossing LDS comedy of its time.[3]
After the successful distribution of two films intended for
LDS audiences, Halestorm Entertainment made the deci-
sion to produce and distribute The Home Teachers, based
References
on a script by John Moyer. The genesis of the film grew [1] BYU NewsNet - Makers of ’The Singles Ward’ and
from a single idea. Moyer had the idea of Birkeland ’The RM’ are at it again
falling through a ceiling, and built a script around it.[1] [2] Deseret News Review
That scene developed into Birkeland, wearing a wedding [3] "Competing Business Models in Mormon Cinema,"
dress, falling through the ceiling onto a fully set kitchen by Eric Samuelson. BYU Studies, Volume 46, Number
table, followed by a toilet. Moyer soon wrote many other 2, p.225
scenes involving similar slapstick humor and developed
them into a story.
External links
• The Home Teachers at the Internet Movie Database
• The Home Teachers at Rotten Tomatoes
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Categories:
• 2000s comedy films
• 2004 films
• English-language films
• Latter Day Saint cinema
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