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Monday, April 23, 2018

Home Again (2018)

This is a more or less feel good movie that will leave you smiling.  I was both amused by and resembled a review that read that his Reese Witherspoon brand loyalty was a factor in his enjoyment of this somewhat silly but none-the-less upbeat romantic comedy.
Witherspoon is a newly separated under employed mother of two tweens and the daughter of a once famous Hollywood director.  She moves back to SoCal into her childhood home, and is at odds with what to do with herself.  Her mother, played charmingly by Candace Bergen, incites three talented but broke playwrights to move into her guest house to help defray some expenses and provide some child care.  One of them provides romance for her, one is a mentor for her eldest daughter, and they all help parent the kids in a way that puts their actual father to shame.  The story of growing away from a marriage and then growing into yourself is just as cliche as it sounds, but an enjoyable and slightly off beat rift on a familiar theme.

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