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Home again3/27/2023 ![]() The one-floor, hacienda-style abode is big enough to accommodate not just a built-in pool and a courtyard spacious enough to hold group yoga classes for her friends. (Sorry, I don’t have the gene that allows you to instantly know a make and model, but the sloping roof suggests a Porsche). Not that Alice has problems finding a new home since she inherited a vintage spread from her late Oscar-winning director-father, a revered ‘70s icon, as well as a sporty classic car. So she and her sitcom-sassy grade-school daughters have moved back to Los Angeles, where her ex-actress mother ( Candice Bergen, the only cast member who is able to ring much zing from her semi-comedic lines) and a ready-made network of giddy gal pals applaud her return. Her New York City-based music-biz husband ( Michael Sheen) apparently refused to give up on the hard-partying lifestyle that such a profession requires. Oh, the humanity.Īfter observing thousands of Houstonians forced out of their own now-demolished homes by a devastating flood and their self-sacrificing rescuers, I found myself from the get-go having difficulty summoning much sympathy for Reese Witherspoon’s Alice, a newly separated mother of two who we first meet as she sobs in her bathroom on her 40th birthday. Consider that one of the bigger setbacks faced by at least three characters at some point in “Home Again” is that they choose to eat cold leftover lasagna straight out of the same red Le Creuset pan. But it’s probably more than a little tone deaf right now to trot out to see a cream-puffy Hollywood rom-com fantasy involving coddled well-off people. Usually there is nothing wrong with indulgent escapism as a cinematic commodity.
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