Home Fries | | Cast : | Drew Barrymore, Luke Wilson | | Director : | Dean Parisot | | Studio : | Warner Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Widescreen | | Released Date : | November 25, 1998 | | DVD Released Date : | June 01, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | February 09, 2005 | | Summary | Home Fries | Content
 | Home Fries is a great movie about a young women, Sally, played by Drew Barrymore, who is just trying to find a father for her unborn baby. The real father died of a mysterious heart attack. The man she finds, Dorian, played by Luke Wilson, played a mayjor part in the real fathers death.
Drew Barrymore and Luke Wilson had great chemistry on camera. I recomend this movie to fans of either Drew, Luke, and comedic romance movies. It has a great plot, is funny, romantic, and keeps you wondering what will happen next. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 24, 2004 | | Summary | Wild,Weird | Content
| Home Fries is an endearing dark comedy. The movie is filled with wild, weird twists and turns revolving around the death of a cheating step-father.The movie is flat out,laugh out loud funny. There is also a completely charming romance between one of the step-sons and the pregnant girlfriend of the step-dad.
Drew Barrymore is radiant as the girlfriend and Luke Wilson is perfect as her messed up suitor.Add Catherine O'Hara as the crazy Mom and Jake Busey as the going crazy brother-and you have a don't miss movie! |
| Rating | | | Date | August 19, 2003 | | Summary | Sweet Guffaws | Content
| Love it. Could see it again and again. Sweet romance, truly delirious black comedy, featuring the best and the worst of human aspirations. Two grown sons still trying to please their crazy-making, manipulative mother...chivalry and heroics in a burger joint...and real suspense amidst extreme characters and the loveliest subtleties in humor...Luke Wilson can do no wrong. So funny. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 23, 2003 | | Summary | dry humor is intelligently subtle but funnier | Content
| This movie is very funny. Appreciating it's dry, intelligent humor you will like it more every time you watch it. The characters portray a range of human traits that are humorous because we all know people representative of those traits. The acting was especially good on the part of Luke Wilson and Drew Barrymore. Wilson is so natural at it. His facial expressions are hilarious when his character is uncomfortable. His body language reminds me of what Jimmy Stewart does in some of his comedies. And Drew acts with charm and believability. Try watching the movie in closed-captioned you may notice more of the mumbled language that makes the movie funnier.
There are a lot of funny things but you have to pay attention to catch them. There is a scene where the sheriff and his deputy are walking away from a dead person in an old drive-in movie theater and they walk zig zag around the benches to get back to their car instead of climbling over them. One scene show Luke's character, Dorian, thinking of hamburger assembly while at a funeral.
Enjoy all the little subtle things: the trailing off conversations, the facial expressions, the body language. It's funny in real life so it's funny here too. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 17, 2002 | | Summary | 2-D caricature of a black comedy | Content
| This movie is awful. I am neither a Drew Barrymore fan nor a detractor. It seems her fans are the few that actually like this movie. The plausibility factor is zero which absolutely guts the humor premise. A good part of my tastes embrace dark humor but this movie looks more like an elaborately staged non-funny improv. They were reaching for Repo-Man but managed to bottom out under Peggy Sue Got Married instead. If you read all the reviews you will find someone who mentions this is the stinker they use to grade all the other movie farts. I agree whole-heartedly with that assessment. |
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