Home Fries (1998)
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31% of critics liked it
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34% of users liked it
(39,257 ratings)
Dean Parisot, who won a live-action short Oscar, made his feature directorial debut with this black comedy from a producer team that included Barry Levinson and Lawrence Kasdan. A philandering stepdad is the victim of vengeful Mrs. Lever (Catherine O'Hara), who sends her sons out to scare him to… More Dean Parisot, who won a live-action short Oscar, made his feature directorial debut with this black comedy from a producer team that included Barry Levinson and Lawrence Kasdan. A philandering stepdad is the victim of vengeful Mrs. Lever (Catherine O'Hara), who sends her sons out to scare him to death. Cobra helicopter pilots Dorian (Luke Wilson) and Angus (Jake Busey) accomplish this by strafing the forest at night as the stepdad runs in terror. No one knows that pregnant Burger-Matic cashier Sally (Drew Barrymore) was the stepdad's mistress. However, since Burger-Matic and Cobra headsets share the same radio frequency, the notion surfaces that maybe Burger-Matic workers overheard something; Angus suggests that Dorian take a job at the fast-food joint in order to determine just who knows what. Once on the job, however, the situation gets twisted after Dorian falls hard for Sally. The chain-smoking Mrs. Jackson (Shelley Duvall), Sally's trailer-trash mother, turns up, as does her redneck father, Red (Lanny Flaherty). In an inside film reference, Angus mentions the classic "Lamb to the Slaughter" episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Shown at the 1998 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi
- Directed By
- Dean Parisot
- Written By
- Vince Gilligan
- Genres
- Romance, Comedy
PG-13,
- In Theaters
- Nov 25, 1998 Wide
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures
Critic Reviews
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Eric Lurio, Greenwich Village Gazette
Drew is cute as always and so's Wilson
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Alex Sandell, Juicy Cerebellum
A dark comedy that's artificially dark and is never very funny.
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Oz, Hollywood Bitchslap
There's a good movie somewhere in here trying to escape... the audience can relate to that desire.
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Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid
Drew comes through for us. Her easy charm and winning smile put us back on track, giving us something familiar and wonderful to cling to.
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Cast
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Drew Barrymore
as Sally
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Luke Wilson
as Dorian
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Catherine O'Hara
as Mrs. Lever
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Jake Busey
as Angus
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Shelley Duvall
as Mrs. Jackson
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Kim Robillard
as Billy
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Daryl Mitchell
as Roy
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Lanny Flaherty
as Red
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Chris Ellis
as Henry Lever
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Blue Deckert
as Sheriff
