[4] Director Marks was a nominee for the Grand Jury Prize for Drama at the Sundance Film Festival.
The film opens with Archie holding a gun over Lucy and shooting her dead while her mother Katherine looks on in horror at the ranch they are all at.
He finds out Katherine's daughter is Lucy Samuel from the TV show "Banyon's Band" and is shocked.
Archie's former lawyer Smith remarks he knows what happened--giving up Deputy Tellez's testimony, but knows the truth.
[3] Variety gave the film a negative review: "But the story provides no real rooting interest, and the creepiness of the material tries one’s patience.
"[1] TV Guide also gave the film a negative review: "This arty, overbaked melodrama entirely fails to transcend its source material, Mark Medoff's pretentious stage play The Homage That Follows.
"[7] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times also gave the film a negative review and wrote, "Homage is too long, too repetitive, and too much of its dialogue is too literary for the screen.
"[2] Stephen Holden of The New York Times also gave the film a negative review and wrote, "Like many movies adapted from plays, Homage is often overbearingly speechy.
The movie tries to pump up the energy by punctuating the monologues with zooming metallic sound effects worthy of "Hard Copy."
But if the director, Ross Kagan Marks, intended these shock tactics as a commentary on tabloid television and its audience, the technique only comes across as a jarring affectation.