Peirce’s homefront melodrama–her first feature film since her debut, 1999’s Boys Don’t Cry–has all admirable intentions and several really good scenes, but otherwise disappoints with its fractured approach to narrating the turmoil of returning Iraq war veterans. Part of the problem is that the material is just too familiar, but casting is also an issue. With the exception of Jospeh Gordon-Levitt’s tortured Tommy, everyone else looks more than a little too model-pretty to sell the film’s otherwise effective rural, blue-collar ethos. (Hollywood Jewel 16, Waco, TX)