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Just what I expected

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Drew Barrymore is cute and she has her loyal fans but, man, this woman makes so many lame movies. To her credit, some of her movies, like "Ever After," are nice films - no language problems and a film the family could safely watch which certainly is opposite of her wild, earlier days when she was exposing herself on the David Letterman show, and other incidents. Barrymore has since played a few more of those nice characters, so I am not knocking her. It's just that so many of her films are "Lifetime" cable TV Grade B chick flicks. This one, however - be warned - is a much darker film than advertised. It's not exactly the sweet romance story you might think.What hurt this movie, in my opinion, wasn't Barrymore so much as it was Luke Wilson. Is there a dumber looking face in Hollywood than his? I'm sorry but with that dumb expression I cannot buy him as an "intelligent" person as he is supposed to be in this story. Of course, the filmmakers deliberately had him making these goofy faces, which is confusing if he is supposed to come across as someone with brains. He doesn't look it, nor does the script make this an intelligent film, either. It's supposed to be a comedy but you tell me how many laughs you got watching the first 45 minutes in here? I didn't get many, if any, and by then had lost interest. Hopefully, Drew will have better luck finding more intelligent scripts in the future, or at least stories with a plot to them!

This romantic comedy gets almost too manic to watch. A very good cast in a goofball story. Drew Barrymore plays Sally Jackson, a pregnant fast-food drive thru window person, who learns the father of her baby is not only married...but dead to boot. Unknowingly one the man's step-sons(Luke Wilson) falls in love with her, while his brother(Jake Busey) is ordered by their mother(Catherine O'Hara) to murder her. Revenge is chaotic. My least favorite scene is the burial sequence and my favorite takes place at the Lamaze class. This quirky dark comedy would fall apart without Barrymore doing her very best to hold the whole thing together. Also featured in the cast: Daryl Mitchell, Shelley Duvall and Jill Parker-Jones.

I won't say "Home Fries" is a complete waste. I was somehow taken in enough to watch the entire movie. One shining light is Jake Busey, who steals most of the scenes he has, and the crazy thing is that he's stealing them from actors like Luke Wilson and Catherine O'Hara.The writing, dialogue and costumes were another highlight of the movie. The portrayal of the Jackson family was right on the money.It was the overall movie premise and plot lines that were average at best. After the first 30 minutes of the movie you could see the direction the film would take.Overall, this movie didn't know which way it wanted to go. A comedy? A drama? A romantic comedy? One might think they were trying to make a movie along the lines of "Raising Arizona". If that was the case, they missed.

This movie with Luke Wilson (brother of Owen Wilson) & Drew Barrymore is very enjoyable. While it was promoted as a Romantic Comedy, it should be noted that this has a darker comedic theme with some action sequences. If you were looking for a Meg Ryan/Tom Hanks movie, reset your expectations and rent this one anyways. It is a very enjoyable, fun movie.