Home Fries (1998)
Dorian and Angus chase down their womanizing stepfather with a helicopter, frightening him to death. In his effort to cover their tracks, Dorian begins investigating his stepfather's mistress, Sally. She works at a fast-food drive-through, she's pregnant and Dorian quickly falls in love with her. Unfortunately, his scheming mother wants Sally dead. And Sally isn't sure she wants Dorian to be her child's father and also his brother.
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Best movie ever!
A Disappointing Continuation
The acting in this movie is really good.
If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.
I only noted "spoilers" to protect myself in case someone sees a spoiler that I don't intend. Anyhoo, I loved this movie. Quirky and off the wall, a bit of a comedic thriller. But enchanting in an odd ball way. I forget movies easily, even if I liked them. But this one stuck with me over the years. I've watched it more than once and would do so again. Just the wonderful scene where Drew looks at Luke with total sweetness and trust and all smiles is worth seeing for it's charm--but you, the viewer, know the back story and secrets. Whatever will she say or do when she finds out? Or will she find out. This movie is so under rated. Not for small children, who would be bored, but I think any age can enjoy it. On a certain level, it is clean and moral but the trip along the way isn't. Worth seeing.
Drew Barrymore is cute and she has her loyal fans but, man, this woman makes so many lame movies. To her credit, some of her movies, like "Ever After," are nice films - no language problems and a film the family could safely watch which certainly is opposite of her wild, earlier days when she was exposing herself on the David Letterman show, and other incidents. Barrymore has since played a few more of those nice characters, so I am not knocking her. It's just that so many of her films are "Lifetime" cable TV Grade B chick flicks. This one, however - be warned - is a much darker film than advertised. It's not exactly the sweet romance story you might think.What hurt this movie, in my opinion, wasn't Barrymore so much as it was Luke Wilson. Is there a dumber looking face in Hollywood than his? I'm sorry but with that dumb expression I cannot buy him as an "intelligent" person as he is supposed to be in this story. Of course, the filmmakers deliberately had him making these goofy faces, which is confusing if he is supposed to come across as someone with brains. He doesn't look it, nor does the script make this an intelligent film, either. It's supposed to be a comedy but you tell me how many laughs you got watching the first 45 minutes in here? I didn't get many, if any, and by then had lost interest. Hopefully, Drew will have better luck finding more intelligent scripts in the future, or at least stories with a plot to them!
SPOILERS: I do have a fondness for Barrymore movies and liked her tremendously in this one. Homefries is a very strange movie overall. It starts out one way and then goes another. It's story is somewhat disjointed and although it is very interesting in the beginning, it sort of loses steam early on. What you think it is going to be about is not what it actually is.I enjoyed Drew Barrymore in this role tremendously though even if I really didn't like the overall movie to much. The movie started one way and went off in a total different direction. The plot was all over the place and it is at times dull, others a bit obnoxious. Barrymore however keeps you watching, she is very good in this as Sally. Even if though overall movie was a bit to disjointed for me, Barrymore lends it a bit of a sparkle.I liked the southern atmosphere as well. The direction was good and the movie nicely photographed at any rate. Basically Homefries is neither really good nor really bad, it's main asset is Barrymore. My vote is 5 of 10 .
This was a black comedy that unfolded over the first 30 minutes of the film, revealing one surprise relationship after another, until you realize that all the major characters are related in surprising ways. My daughter and I watched this together and laughed out loud quite a bit. Luke Wilson did a great job as the moony eyed helicopter pilot who falls for Drew's character. Drew did a good job as a confused but sweet pregnant girl who works at a burger joint in somewhere in small town America. Jake Busey looks a whole lot like his dad, and chewed a lot of furniture for this role, which was rather one dimensional. Catherine O'Hara is at her best playing this quirky mom. (during one funny scene, the older boy asks her if it's true that she liked the other son better..."I love you both, she says, but the difference is only this (puts her fingers an inch apart) much!LOL!!!) If you don't enjoy dark humor, this will not amuse you. It also had an ending that made us go "awww"...it was almost as if they weren't sure how to end this one, though. Overall, it wasn't a bad film.