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KaptenVideoOct 6, 2017

Welcome to the alternate dimension where everything is much the same as here, but life resembles something straight outta women's glamour magazines, or maybe Vapiano commercial.
This is the wonderland where:
* everybody and everything isWelcome to the alternate dimension where everything is much the same as here, but life resembles something straight outta women's glamour magazines, or maybe Vapiano commercial.
This is the wonderland where:
* everybody and everything is basically nice and good-looking, and conflicts just go way or soon resolve in the nicest way possible;
* recently separated jobless mother of two who has just reached middle-age and moved to the other side of the country can live in a really nice comfortable house which she doesn’t have to pay for;
* she meets true love in the form of a guy 13 years her junior, who’s tall, strikingly good-looking, socially adept, creative, confident, kind, ambitious, loves her children, and also has two best friends who can be described much the same way;
* people can and will trust each other, and create strong bonds instantly
* everybody’s just so damn understanding all the time, even children are not bordering on awful like in real-life
* and so on.
All this goodness is based on the debuting writer-director Hallie Meyers-Shyer, and (more importantly) produced by her mother Nancy Meyers who’s also responsible for her fair share of chick crack, including „What Women Want“, „Something’s Gotta Give“, and „It’s Complicated“.
The result will be near-insufferable to many, including the critics – Metacritic gives it 41/100, Rotten Tomatoes 33/100, both offer users' scores in lower 50s.
But me, I quite enjoyed it – always had a soft spot for this kind of thing. The authors have created exactly what they were aiming for, and everything is put together very well.
What's more important, the actors are enjoyable and feel surprisingly sincere considering the high cheesiness factor of the whole thing.
The events and dialogue are not original in any way, of course, but the cast really makes it work, be it the screen veteran club (Reese Witherspoon, Candice Bergen, Michael Sheen, Lake Bell) or the trio of young and fresh hunksters (Nat Wolff, Pico Alexander, Jon Rudnitsky) that even Zoolander would envy for their impossibly good-looking-ness.
Together they create an ultimate feel-good atmosphere – a cinematic comfort food that is probably meant for 50+ midder- and upper-class American ladies, but works for little girls of every age and sex, including myself.
All the others, who will not „get it“, probably have a horrible time of living through all 97 minutes of this. Just remember: let yourself be transported to magic neverland where life really is like in magazines, and all will be fine.
„Home Again“ is the movie equivalent of something canned milk: one craves it for irresistible one-two punch of sweetness which is always the same and way too sweet for many, but if you stomach this type of thing, it’s gonna be delicious.
Reese Witherspoon probably realized that it’s cool to be serious and versatile actress and all, but despite the good looks she’s not actually getting any younger.
So she found some time to make another chick flick, a mental successor for her "Legally Blonde" series, and grab younger demographic tightly by the **** until she can.
I mean, what else is there for her in her forties and also coming decades – a string of boring old-lady roles? Bah. She wants to have some fun til she can, and you should too!… Expand

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OnlyAGreatOnlyOct 14, 2017

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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AcaciaSep 9, 2017

This is a very sweet movie and the ladies I was with all emjoyed it. Reese Witherspoon, Alice, is turning 40 and newly separated. At a birthday celebration, she meets a much younger guy who falls for her. (That can happen in real life,This is a very sweet movie and the ladies I was with all emjoyed it. Reese Witherspoon, Alice, is turning 40 and newly separated. At a birthday celebration, she meets a much younger guy who falls for her. (That can happen in real life, can't it?). The next morning, everyone, including her mother, very nicely played by Candice Bergen, ends up at her house. Mom is a famous actress and Alice's father is a famous director. The younger guy is part of a trio of young men looking for a big break in Hollywood to get their movie made. Before Alice knows what is happening, her mother has in ited the guys to move into Alice's casita. Alice has concerns for her young daughters. But they take to the guys instantly. Alice tries on her relationship with the younger man, and everone gets along swimmingly for a while. What I enjoyed about this movie is that it did not go over the top in any way. The situation does not seem at all preposterous. The two girls are sweet and not typical obnoxious movie kids. Everything is tastefully done. There is no detour down Raunchy Road. It is a lovely, sweet, fun and funny movie. Definitely worth seeing.… Expand

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EpicLadySpongeSep 8, 2017

Home Again's tagline... ironically titled "Starting over is not for beginners" out of everything that could have been possible... suggests that it must take a huge miracle to begin starting over. The problem here is that if it would ever beHome Again's tagline... ironically titled "Starting over is not for beginners" out of everything that could have been possible... suggests that it must take a huge miracle to begin starting over. The problem here is that if it would ever be possible, I sure wish everyone that worked on this film that also worked on previous films; this means you too, Reese Witherspoon; gets a head start to starting over their career from their roots. We could easily pretend this film wouldn't exist otherwise in the canonical plot.… Expand

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TVJerrySep 11, 2017

I'm sure she hates seeing this, but the apple doesn't fall far: Writer/director Hailey Meyers-Shyer is the daughter of Nancy Meyers (The Intern, What Women Want, It's Complicated) and their rom-com styles are similar. As usual, it's femaleI'm sure she hates seeing this, but the apple doesn't fall far: Writer/director Hailey Meyers-Shyer is the daughter of Nancy Meyers (The Intern, What Women Want, It's Complicated) and their rom-com styles are similar. As usual, it's female centric with Reese Witherspoon turning on the charm, as a newly-separated mother of 2, who ends up with 3 twenty-something men living in her guest house (and 1 ending up in her bed). The inevitable complications arise when the husband (Michael Sheen) crashes this unique family arrangement. While it's infused with the expected sincere emotions and lighthearted interactions, the actual comedy is sparse. It's more about the characters and the entire cast creates likeable individuals. I’m sure Meyers-Shyer made her mamma proud, but this amiable movie is not taking the genre in any new directions.… Expand