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Home Fries (1998)

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Reviews Counted:34

Fresh:11

Rotten:23

Average Rating:4.8/10

Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: A quirky, hard to label picture penned by X-Files scribe Gilligan. Loosely, the story concerns a drive-through employee at a fast food restaurant (Barrymore). She is ordered to be murdered by the... A quirky, hard to label picture penned by X-Files scribe Gilligan. Loosely, the story concerns a drive-through employee at a fast food restaurant (Barrymore). She is ordered to be murdered by the son of the dead man with whom she'd been having an affair. Not so fast, however, for the son, Dorian (Wilson), begins to fall for her. From there, events spiral even further into the land of black comedy. [More]

Starring: Drew Barrymore, Luke Wilson, Catherine O'Hara, Jake Busey

Starring: Drew Barrymore, Luke Wilson, Catherine O'Hara, Jake Busey, Shelley Duvall, Lanny Flaherty, Daryl Mitchell, Kim Robillard, Chris Ellis, Blue Deckert

Director: Dean Parisot

Director: Dean Parisot
Screenwriter: Vince Gilligan
Producer: Lawrence Kasdan, Barry Levinson, Charles J. Newirth, Mark Johnson
Composer: Rachel Portman

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02/08/04
Daniel M. Kimmel
Daniel M. Kimmel
Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Drew is cute as always and so's Wilson

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12/12/03
Eric Lurio
Eric Lurio
Greenwich Village Gazette

A dark comedy that's artificially dark and is never very funny.

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05/16/03
Jon Niccum
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Lawrence Journal-World

There's a good movie somewhere in here trying to escape... the audience can relate to that desire.

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03/25/03
Oz
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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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