Home Fries

1998

Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance

9
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 31% · 36 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 34% · 25K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.1/10 10 9213 9.2K

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Dean Parisot Photo
Dean Parisot

Top cast

John Hawkes Photo
John Hawkes as Randy
Drew Barrymore Photo
Drew Barrymore as Sally Jackson
Kim Robillard Photo
Kim Robillard as Billy
Catherine O'Hara Photo
Catherine O'Hara as Beatrice Lever
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859.26 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
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1.56 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Movie-12 5 / 10

Charming Characters can't save a dark script. ** out of ****

"Home Fries" has an intriguing cast, with such talents as the always charming Drew Barrymore and her real-life love interest Luke Wilson, Catherine O'Hara from "Home Alone," Jake Busey and Shelley Duvall. However, the positive things going for the movie end there, for there isn't an adequate script to pull the characters though: it is almost if this movie is nothing more than a smart character study.The plot is very complicated. And to top things off and make it harder for the filmmakers to succeed in the movie, it is all done as a comedy. The trick is to movies like this is to go way over the top in the black humor, like "Clay Pigeons" and "Fargo" did. But the filmmakers just don't do that here, and I felt like they were virtually holding something back from us, resulting in a starkly, unfunny film.For example, in a particular sequence when the drunken father of Sally takes the Burger joint hostage, there isn't enough comic material to make that relevant to the rest of the movie. You see, the whole concept of the ex-husband coming back for revenge isn't really funny, and doesn't have much propose to the rest of the film. The filmmakers think it is funny enough that the man is very drunk, and that he has at gunpoint Dorian dressed in a robot suite as the mascot for Burger Matic for a children's birthday party. Believe it or not, it isn't funny.There is some humor that does work well. For instance, there are scenes where Mrs. Lever fakes tears when talking about her dead husband, whom she ordered to be done with. She screams loudly and annoyingly, all in a very black manner. Now, that is kind of funny. But most of the movies comic elements are original, but too dark to laugh at.I really liked the characters in "Home Fries," that were colorful and entertaining. If only the story had enough potential in it to support them. I also like the energetic and fast paced ending, but lets face it, we've traveled down this road before, with much more success.
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Reviewed by great_sphinx_42 5 / 10

A Cute Black Romantic Comedy?

How does that work? Well. . .it does, and it doesn't. It's kind of strange, because this movie wasn't terribly complicated, but I'm still not sure what to make of it. So here's my tentative review: it's weird in a weird way. I mean, there are funny weird movies, and fun weird movies, and disgusting weird movies, and experimental weird movies, and mindless weird movies- and "Home Fries" is somehow none of those, either by an inch or by a mile. It's worth watching, don't get me wrong, but my feelings on this movie are uncharacteristically ambiguous. Drew is great, of course- she almost always is. I grew up in a tiny, Southern town, so I can vouch that the atmosphere seemed authentic. Luke Wilson is a charmingly unusual hero. Catherine O'Hara is funny as his psycho mother, and the Busey kid chews the scenery with both gusto and some amazing choppers, each obviously inherited from his dad. Some of the dialogue was really good, and there was a lot about this flick that was nicely understated. But overall...well, I occasionally get the urge to watch it again (because I like strange movies, and "Home Fries" is possessed of a strangeness I've never quite seen before,) but it certainly won't wear out before most of my other tapes. That, I guess, is the simplest and most honest review I can give it.

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