home movie
noun
: a movie that one makes for people to watch in one's home and that is usually of the family or a family event
We watched home movies of the family reunion.
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Surviving the advent of television and home movie-viewing via VHS tapes, DVDs and streaming, the Grand Lake continues to operate as a place where people can come together to watch movies on a big screen — as movies were made to be watched.
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Martha Ross, Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2026
Some Acoustic Home Panels Acoustic home panels are often added to rooms, such as home movie theaters or practice rooms, where the sound tends to bounce off the walls.
—Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 26 Feb. 2026
The first home movie may be more than a century old, but home video gave amateurs seemingly boundless capacity for recording family and friends.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2026
In this documentary about the affair that led to her birth, Polley incorporates home movie footage — some authentic, some staged — and interviews with different family members to plumb the depths of a woman who remains, even to those who knew her, something of an enigma.
—Eric Farwell, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Feb. 2026
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Martha Ross, Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2026
Some Acoustic Home Panels Acoustic home panels are often added to rooms, such as home movie theaters or practice rooms, where the sound tends to bounce off the walls.
—Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 26 Feb. 2026
The first home movie may be more than a century old, but home video gave amateurs seemingly boundless capacity for recording family and friends.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2026
In this documentary about the affair that led to her birth, Polley incorporates home movie footage — some authentic, some staged — and interviews with different family members to plumb the depths of a woman who remains, even to those who knew her, something of an enigma.
—Eric Farwell, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Feb. 2026
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“Home movie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/home%20movie. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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