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- 2017
- PG-13
- Open Road Films (II)
- 1 h 37 m
- 2017
- PG-13
- Open Road Films (II)
- 1 h 37 m
Summary Recently separated from her husband (Michael Sheen), Alice (Reese Witherspoon) decides to start over by moving back to her hometown of Los Angeles with her two young daughters. During a night out on her 40th birthday, Alice meets three aspiring filmmakers who happen to be in need of a place to live. Alice agrees to let the guys stay in h...
Directed By: Hallie Meyers-Shyer
Written By: Hallie Meyers-Shyer
- 2017
- PG-13
- Open Road Films (II)
- 1 h 37 m
- 2017
- PG-13
- Open Road Films (II)
- 1 h 37 m
Home Again
41
5.6
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Summary Recently separated from her husband (Michael Sheen), Alice (Reese Witherspoon) decides to start over by moving back to her hometown of Los Angeles with her two young daughters. During a night out on her 40th birthday, Alice meets three aspiring filmmakers who happen to be in need of a place to live. Alice agrees to let the guys stay in h...
Directed By: Hallie Meyers-Shyer
Written By: Hallie Meyers-Shyer
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 29 Critic Reviews
41
21% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
38% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
41% Negative
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 29 Critic Reviews
41
21% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
38% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
41% Negative
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
Home Again is a tight, witty script from a first-time director with a long list of hits ahead of her – and, of course, the golden age of Hollywood dynasties lighting her way.
Meyers-Shyer loves movies as much as the young men in Home Again and the best scenes reflect that.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 41 User Ratings
5.6
41% Positive
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
34% Mixed
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
24% Negative
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 41 User Ratings
5.6
41% Positive
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
34% Mixed
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
24% Negative
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
Home Again is probably one of most funniest movies I've ever seen. Home Again is the modern day rom-com with a role switch (younger guy dating a 40 year old woman). If you love Reese Witherspoon's mmovies this has to be one of Reese's best performances yet.
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Home Again is nice, and entertaining, and funny! I can't wait for it to be new and cool. The movie is nice. Entertaining. Can't wait to watch it!!!!!!
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Home Again has a certain charm and polish. It’s hard not to like people who are so … likable. But it’s also hard not to feel a constant sense of disconnect from these characters and their so-called “crises.”
Still, while it wouldn't be correct to characterize Home Again as a formula film, it's generic enough that it somehow feels formulaic. Consequently, "Home Again" never distinguishes itself as anything but a predictable and thoroughly ordinary film, just with lots of fancy window dressing.
It’s the dullest movie about Tinseltown in decades, an irritating film full of irritating turns.
For her directorial debut, Home Again, Hallie Meyers-Shyer, Nancy Meyers’s daughter, has made a shabby copy of a Nancy Meyers romantic comedy.
The problem with director and writer Hallie Myers-Sheyer’s film is that it just blandly presents all of the expected cliches of the genre without anything really new or unique to say.
It struck me while reading the negative comments to this movie that movie critics don't treat films the same way book critics treat books. For instance, a beach book is never critiqued the same way you would a Nobel-Prize winning's latest work. Why doesn't the same apply to movies? Why do most stuck-up, arrogant critics have to compare everything to the pantheon of Criterion Films and AFC classics? Isn't that counterintuitive? In a single night I watched both this film and the Florian Zeller film The Father (2020) starring Anthony Hopkins. These are two different kinds of films. I enjoyed them both for different reasons. And let me say this, after watching a tragic, lovely but difficult film about a person slipping away into senility, Home Again is a nice remedy, a counterweight to the more difficult film and at the same time, to the current crap in this world. Home Again is a love letter to the 'idea' and idealized version of Hollywood (the reality is far more sinister, I am sure) and a story about a newly-separated woman who happens to be the daughter of a deceased auteur filmmaker and nice-twist, allows three aspiring young filmmakers to occupy her L.A. guesthouse has a good vibe to it. Yes, these actors have appeared in other stellar roles in other blah blah blah award-winning fare but, as the old Shel Silverstein song goes, after you've been having steak for a long time, beans, beans taste fine. This movie is cinematic jelly beans, and there is a time and place for candy. Don't tell the critics that, they would rather we spend our time watching depressing, pessimistic drivel with politically correct messages. They don't live in the real world. And this movie, made my daughter of Nancy Meyers (The Holiday, It's Complicated, Something's Gotta Give, What Women Want) delivers a nice little tale. You go to the beach with a beach book, right? Most people don't read Dostoevsky while sipping margaritas (those kinds of people would be cool to meet, come to think of it...) And here, hey, you want a pizza night movie, this works. I'd rather watch something like this and smile at the end, as opposed to a rave review film that would have me reaching for Prozac. The characters in Home Again are easy going, fun, kind (most of them) and there are a few lessons learned along the way - Alice (Witherspoon) gets her priorities sorted, the filmmaker trio mature as friends. What's the problem here? My only criticism is that the story could have tied in the importance/presence of the filmmaker father more. We are introduced to him in the beginning and there are a few nods to him along the way, but it would have been more interesting to learn how his influence shaped his daughter's life, the decisions she made. That sort of thing. My only critique here, but that doesn't stop me from enjoying this movie.
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This movie gave me more questions than answering............................
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Boring throughout the runtime and forgettable when it ends, "Home Again" delivers only the most basic requirements of a rom-com.
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Meyers-Shyer makes a failed attempt at the romantic comedies features of Meyers (The Holiday, The Intern). Her film lacks from an intriguing plot, the definition of good characters or an interesting thread to keep the viewer throughout its duration. Witherspoon is the only actress who seems to have fun in the movie and to be honest leads this fiasco to something purely mediocre.
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