Home Fries

1998 "A long shot romance in a short order world."
5.1| 1h33m| PG-13| en
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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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GamerTab That was an excellent one.
Wordiezett So much average
Stometer Save your money for something good and enjoyable
Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
renay30088 I loved this movie...It was so hilarious but border lined on the absolutely absurd...but it REALLY kept me laughing after the initial beginning of the movie, which I found to be a bit upsetting...Luke Perry & Drew Barrymore are absolutely superb together...Daryl Mitchell was superb & authentic in his part as the over- achieving, forever grilling, instructor of burger making...hamburger person...the funeral scene was bordering on the totally ridiculous...overall this movie just kept me in complete 'stitches'...Catherine O'Hara really comes through as the comedic super-giant that she truly is...the background music was well placed & well selected...overall, an extremely entertaining movie...that's what movie making should be all about after all...
tomac67 I won't say "Home Fries" is a complete waste. I was somehow taken in enough to watch the entire movie. One shining light is Jake Busey, who steals most of the scenes he has, and the crazy thing is that he's stealing them from actors like Luke Wilson and Catherine O'Hara.The writing, dialogue and costumes were another highlight of the movie. The portrayal of the Jackson family was right on the money.It was the overall movie premise and plot lines that were average at best. After the first 30 minutes of the movie you could see the direction the film would take.Overall, this movie didn't know which way it wanted to go. A comedy? A drama? A romantic comedy? One might think they were trying to make a movie along the lines of "Raising Arizona". If that was the case, they missed.
TBJCSKCNRRQTreviews I don't know what exactly went wrong with this film; I guess they wanted to make a comedy, and they couldn't figure out whether to make it a romantic comedy or a black comedy. It could perhaps have been both, but that would require for it to start out as both. It starts out only as a black comedy, and the romance just surfaces from out of nowhere about half an hour into the film. Romance can add to a film, but with some black comedies(including this one) the plot is too far-fetched for you to really care about the characters, and romance in a movie is empty if you have no one to care for. What's left is just some unoriginal black comedy gags that seem worn out; people who should care about the dead guy but don't, the guy talking sense being mistaken as the crazy one, the ceremony that should be silent and holy, but is constantly interrupted... I could go on. We've seen it all before, often done better than here. The plot, while being extremely far-fetched, is fairly original(as far as I know) and it does allow for at least a few funny scenes. Too many of them just seem recycled. The acting is not bad, in fact it's better than what the script is worth. The script is fairly badly written, especially with the randomly thrown-in romance. Many of the characters seem like stereotypical cliches too. All in all, the film could have been far better, had the plot been more believable, the romance better worked in, the script better written, the material more original and the film overall less predictable. It has its moments, but it fails to entertain throughout the runtime, which it should be able to, as it's only 90 minutes. It does have a few pretty good laughs though. It's just barely entertaining enough to sit through, and it's not the worst way to spend an hour and a half, if you've got absolutely nothing better to do. 5/10
Nick Zbu This movie is a horrible mess. It's marketed as a teen flick but honestly, it's so scattershot it's hard to see who would really want to watch this. Why did they make this? Hard to say, but it has the earmarks of a production that didn't have a firm hand to guide it. It's not a movie, it's Daikatana.It wouldn't be a bad guess to say that this film was a David Lynch film that somehow got rewritten by some awful MTV Video Director then watered-down by the studio something barely marketable. And it fails. Nobody involved with this film should even bother to put it on their resumes or even cash the check in good conscience. It's one thing to take chances with plot and themes and filmmaking in general, but it's quite another to just throw a bunch of crap into a script and label it the same. It's not coherent. It's just an ugly waste of time.What can you say about a film that somehow manages to make Drew Barrymore's pathetic attempt at acting and trying not to go down the Madonna Road of Not Knowing When To Quit? That alone should make you change the channel or buy something else out of the dollar pile.