Home Again Movie Times Hollywood 18
Review: In 'Home Again,' an Imitation of Life (and Mom)
- Home Again
- Directed past Hallie Meyers-Shyer
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- PG-xiii
- 1h 37m
For her directorial debut, "Home Over again," Hallie Meyers-Shyer, Nancy Meyers's daughter, has fabricated a shabby re-create of a Nancy Meyers romantic comedy. If you've watched any of Ms. Meyers's movies, the resemblance between influence and imitation volition be readily apparent. To wit: A star (Reese Witherspoon) plays a would-exist charmer (hither chosen Alice) whose neuroses are as fabulously customized as her kitchen. She's what the brand-conscious call a creative, and while she works (a bit), she spends much of her time on man troubles. Her life is as fluffed as a throw pillow and so drained of realism it is best described as a lifestyle, which can make for a killer aspirational fantasy, at least in Nancy Meyers's hands.
"Home Again," on the other hand, is wholly resistible, partly considering it can't fulfill the promise of that aspirational fantasy either on a arts and crafts level or in terms of its emotional and psychological portraiture. The problems brainstorm with the script, or peradventure just with the insulting idea that Alice would be crying buckets into a mirror because she's turning 40 on the twenty-four hours the story opens. Yeah, she is newly separated from her music-industry husband (Michael Sheen), who likes to take calls from his New York office with its sweeping view. Alice doesn't seem as well bent out of shape by the separation. She'south busy edifice a new career every bit an interior decorator, and has moved with her 2 daughters into her babyhood home, which she has redecorated to look like something out of a lower-budget Nancy Meyers moving picture.
So why is Alice crying? More often than not to try to jump-start a motion-picture show that, formulaic pace past step, needs to confirm that a single woman tin exist happy. You go, girl. That'due south more than or less it, with emphasis pieces and yoga lessons, though there are plot complications, some involving three friends, white dudes who had a hit at a flick festival and now have a power agency backside them, several freelance gigs and, of course, the promise of great shining futures as Hollywood filmmakers. The iii shack upward in Alice's guesthouse and soon they're all one smiley family unit, which might be odd considering they're strangers and she has young daughters — except that this isn't reality, information technology's a chimera.
Of grade information technology is. Its iii dudes, who canvas from festival hype to Hollywood, evoke the fairy-tale trajectories of directors like Colin Trevorrow, who went from making a tiny movie to "Jurassic Earth." Ms. Meyers-Shyer has taken a parallel path, one followed by members of the Coppola association. Ms. Meyers helped produce "Habitation Again" and her former husband and filmmaking partner, Charles Shyer, served as their daughter's second unit of measurement director. Alice's dead father was a director, too. Canisters of film sit, no doubtfulness decaying, in a sunday-filled room, the same 1 in which his Oscar — the embodiment of this movie'due south aspirational thinking — stands as a shining testament to a daughter's love and her moving picture's absurdity.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/movies/home-again-review-hallie-meyers-shyer.html
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