Home Again Reviews

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Before Quentin Tarantino’s western epic Django Unchained, there was the earlier inspiration for it, the 1966 Italian spaghetti western Django. However, it became a cult classic and quite obviously was the main inspiration for Tarantino’s later re-adaptation of the story. The Italian film industry has long punched above its weight in its export of critically acclaimed and controversial films. Its film industry is much more willing to take risks and push the limits of acceptability. It is a neorealist film about a man who loses his bicycle that he needs to keep his job to support his family in the ruins of post war Italy. The cast was entirely first-time actors to make it as authentic as possible.

Consequently, HOME AGAIN contains a high amount of questionable content, including multiple examples of infidelity by multiple characters. Clearly, the setup is to establish Alice as an affable soul who is open-minded and hopeful — the failed marriage and turning the big 40 are nothing more than obstacles for her to overcome. Which of course, she does as her fortunes change when she gives the green light for three aspiring filmmakers to stay under her roof at the guest house. The trio of roommates consists of screenwriter George (Jon Rudnitsky, “Patchwork”), actor Teddy (Nat Wolff, “Death Note”) and director Harry (Pico Alexander, “A Most Violent Year”). In particular, the 27-year old Harry, despite the age difference, tickles Alice’s fancy as he reminds her so much of her late filmmaker father.

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That Alice just met this trio on a drinking binge while celebrating her big 4-0 at a bar and almost slept with one of them —well, this act of charity seems to be the very least she can do. Then her estranged husband has second thoughts and shows up unannounced at her door. Supposedly amusing testosterone-induced alpha-male antics follow. Caitlin Sinclair Chappell is a writer turned editor at CBR. What started as a love for comics, film and television turned into a career after graduating with honors from Lewis & Clark College.

It was controversial at the time due to the sexual themes in the film, but has stood the test of time as being one of the better horror films ever made. It doesn’t take long to figure out that the men in this movie are such losers that it would be an unhappy ending for Alice to end up with any of them. So Home Againbecomes more about whether she’ll come to her senses or not. The satirical element in the meetings is too obvious to be deemed clever and it doesn’t occur to Meyers-Shyer that, of all the things we might choose to care about in Home Again, the unmade movie isn’t high on the list. On the surface, this seems to be the kind of story that Meyers-Shyer’s mother, Nancy Meyers, has told with some degree of confidence and no small amount of box office success.

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If this were a movie, Alice thinks to herself, this would be the spot where the chipper underscore would start to rise while the mid-life crisis and romcom shenanigans begin. Of course, by the time Alice pulls herself up the next morning to find a naked guy in her bed and his friends all passed out on her couch next to one of her equally unconscious girlfriends, her head has cleared a bit. And she realizes that drinking that much was probably a bad thing. Unfortunately, Sudz Sutherland's film ultimately fails in giving us a well-rounded and emotionally backed character story, but does a good job in introducing a topic that hasn't been given a lot of attention. Now more than ever we’re bombarded by darkness in media, movies, and TV. Movieguide® has fought back for almost 40 years, working within Hollywood to propel uplifting and positive content.

Witherspoon’s character on her own is one for which Hollywood and future classically told romantic comedies should take note. Alice is a damaged single mother, which sounds like a familiar and insidious trope on the surface, but Meyers-Shyer turns out this character to her fullest realization. On the brink of divorce and starting a new business, Alice has much of her world crashing down around her, especially while living in the shadow of her late father’s illustrious film career and her mother’s stardom.

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This is a super cute movie, typical of a Reese Witherspoon film. There was a clear positive message and not too many inappropriate scenes. That’s where they cross paths with Alice, who’s out with a few girlfriends. After a bit of dirty dancing, as well as some anemic banter about their age difference, our heroine ends up in bed with Harry, the prettiest, most confident of the three. The story of the movie had a lot of potential, but it just didn't live up to it in the end. The leading lady was charming and enjoyable and the unconventional family that she created with the three men and her children was fun and sweet, but that's just it.

It lacks the sparkle of her better movies, such as "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Freeway," and conjures up none of the wit of her "Legally Blonde" chick flicks. Nothing about this breezy but superficial saga is remotely memorable, and it relies primarily on hopeless artifice that amounts to sheer fantasy. Basically, this movie resembles a situation comedy where nobody suffers any consequences for their actions, and everybody kisses and makes up without any lingering ill will to others.

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HOME AGAIN is written and directed by Hallie Myers-Shyer. Reese Witherspoon has shown us that she can, with indescribable ease and poise, portray a woman who is three-dimensional in perplexity — “Wild,” “Water for Elephants,” and the heralded HBO series “Big Little Lies” are proof of that. Silly-minded and relentlessly cloying, Home Again is not a home worth returning to.

The acting ranges from adequate to pretty good to genuinely funny; in one scene, when Witherspoon is drunk on a terrible date, she behaves exactly the way we’ve all wished we had behaved at least once while on a terrible date. All of that adds up to a movie that’s entertaining enough and charming enough. It’s worth considering whether that’s as much as we can ask of a movie in a genre where talented people have almost no hope of getting studio investment to make money or awards recognition to gain prestige. It's hard to find a decent, endearing film these days and I really liked the characters.

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Hormone-addled Harry cannot resist making a pass at Alice, and Alice cannot resist the 27-year old stud muffin's confidence. The two awaken the following morning without any concerns about indiscretion, and Harry treats Alice like a princess. The night before Alice went out with her girlfriends, she had entrusted Isabel and Rosie to the care and supervision of her mother. Instead, she brings them over to find everybody recovering from their mild Bacchanalian without any repercussions.

That's why we've added a new "Diverse Representations" section to our reviews that will be rolling out on an ongoing basis. You can help us help kids by suggesting a diversity update. She gets so upset that a guy misses a dinner with her because he is trying to get financing for his movie. She should understand how hard it is to succeed in the industry and understand that. And for all of you calling this 'lighthearted' and 'sweet', shame on you! By allowing yourself to believe that THIS is an OK movie, we as audience set the bar sub-zero for Hollywood bag boy's.

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The movie doesn't conclude in anything, or has any depth at all. I didn't know anything about the film, but hadn't watched anything with Reese Witherspoon in a very long time, so I thought I'd sort of catch up with her. I wasn't as impressed with Jon Rudnitsky...he way 'okay'. But I'm making an exception this time because I have a very different take on this film.

I particularly love Rom-Coms and have been disappointed that they have fallen out of favor over the last decade or so. Some of my favorite movies are cheesy Rom-Coms; Never Been Kissed, 13 Going on 30, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, The Holiday and even Ghost of Girlfriends Past. As far as the plot, I thought it was...well 'charming' is not quite the right word...but close enough.