Home (2026) Movie Drinking Game
Take a Drink: for economic anxieties
Take a Drink: for marital fights
Take a Drink: for phone calls
Take a Drink: whenever the boys stonewall someone
Do a Shot: for raspberries
By: Henry J. Fromage (Three Beers) –
The fall of Communism in Russia sent more than just that nation into a realm of economic uncertainty (not that that wasn’t already a thing for them), it also proved devastating to the economies of its entire sphere of influence.
Home is set in the for now still intact Yugoslavia in 1991, as a family is forced to look abroad for a future due to an utter lack of prospects in their homeland. We view their journey and struggles acclimating to their new home through the eyes of 6 year old Maja, who is forced to grow up and take on responsibilities fast.
A Toast
First time director Marijana Janković tells an immigration story drawn to some degree from her own family’s experiences- one full of impossible choices, from leaving their bucolic but unsustainable existence in Serbia, to which of their children will accompany the mother and father to Denmark, and unexpected hoops to jump through, like a double wedding to accommodating Danish citizens to cement their residency status in dodgily legal terms.
This story is told through the eyes of, and really rests upon, the affecting and utterly believable performance from Tara Cubrilo as little Maja, who picks up Danish much quicker than her parents and his thusly thrust into adult situations she never should be as their de facto translator. It’s substantially aided by effective performances from Dejan Cukic and Nada Sargin as her parents and a supporting cast drawn from Janković’s rolodex as a highly respected Danish actress herself, from the sleazy uncle played by sleazeball pro Zlatko Buric to recognizable faces like Claes Bang and Trine Dyrholm playing Danish folks they encounter.
A last shout-out to the ambitious time jump towards the end of the film that really ties together the story Janković is telling.
Beer Two
The husband and father is a bit too headstrong and patriarchal to empathize with at times- he never quite gets the comeuppance he’s due for how he treats his family. Of course, these types of people often don’t.
Beer Three
The plot occasionally jumps through some boilerplate and a bit on the nose dramatic hoops, like when Maja tracks down her drinking and gambling father to ask him to come home, or when she tells a teacher that “Denmark is not a fairy tale country!”
Verdict
Home is an immigration story told with personal conviction about a Serbian family seeking a new start in Denmark.
