Home Page on home video	(written in stylish third person) An innocent Web "search" triggers documentary filmmaker Doug Block's unexpectedly personal look at relationships in the cyber era. Armed with a camera and a classic mid-life restlessness, Net neophyte Block sets out to find the "beating heart" of the Web. But he gets all he bargained for when he meets 21-year old Internet guru Justin Hall, a college classmate of his stepson. Justin's hilarious and utterly uncensored Web diary, Justin's Links From the Underground spares no detail about himself, his friends or his lovers. It has earned Justin attention and fame (and a daily readership numbering in the thousands), but at no small personal cost. Even Hall's mentor, celebrated author and online pioneer Howard Rheingold muses that, "Someone's gonna punch Justin in the nose and then he'll realize where his right to reveal ends." Before long, the filmmaker becomes a focus of Justin's virtual musings, while Justin becomes the centerpiece of Block's film. Increasingly fascinated by the Web -- and Justin -- Block is inspired to create his own online diary, The D-Word, which draws him into his own labyrinth of personal entanglements. As Home Page progresses, the lines between public and private, voyeur and exhibitionist, and documentarian and subject grow increasingly blurred. "The film abounds with Web denizens," writes The New York Times, "but its flesh and sinew are Mr. Block's metaphorical midlife journey, in which the search for identity and intimacy is played out against the backdrop of the Digital Revolution."
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