Homefront is a 2012 American war film directed by Michael Bay and stars ?. The film is set in 2013 in which the French Empire and its "new" allies in Latin and South America invade the United States of America. However, the onset of the First Great War is merely an background and not fully elaborated. The story follows an group of American teenagers who resist the occupation force with guerrilla warfare, calling themselves the Rams, after their community's colleges team. The film was released on January 22, and is determined by Time to be the "First Blockbuster Movie of the Year. The movie is a very loose remake of the 1986 film Resistance, a considerably darker film about a town resistance to a French invasion during a Great War.