Home Fries (1998)

Henry Lever tells pregnant burger drive-thru girl Sally Jackson (Drew Barrymore) that he told his wife but it doesn't impress her. On the drive home, he encounters a military helicopter. Pilot Angus Montier (Jake Busey) scares him to death despite his brother Dorian (Luke Wilson)'s protest. The brothers and Sally's radio get crossed up at the same frequency. The brothers are actually Henry's wife Beatrice Lever (Catherine O'Hara)'s boys. They start to worry and Dorian gets a job at the burger place to investigate if anybody understands what they heard.It tries to be quirky. Drew Barrymore is adorable. Luke Wilson has the boyish looks. However something is off. It's a black comedy without laughs. It's awkward and not cute. It starts with using an attack helicopter to scare a guy to death. It's threatening and unreal. It tries to be funny but it's not working for me.

I generally like Drew Barrymore. In this film, she plays a sweet but frumpy unwed fast food worker. Her performance is as good as usual.Luke Wilson is handsome and likable enough but it is not at all believable that his character would suddenly fall in love with the poor pregnant girl who works at the local Burger-Matic - especially given all the circumstances of the plot. It just isn't plausible.The basic problem with this movie is the story. It's a story not worth telling because we learn nothing from it. The whole premise is very unlikely. The film is pointless with at least three dark, twisted and very unsympathetic characters."Home Fries" is no better than a student film project with a much bigger budget and access to a military helicopter.When it's over, you're likely to ask yourself as I did - Why did I waste 1 1/2 hours watching this lousy movie?

This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Barrymore lays yet another egg. Why doesn't she just quit already?It's a good movie if you're bored watching grass grow.Mean, I know. But the movie just comes off trashy and boring. Highlighting a life let's hope is found only in the most remote of places anymore.More like brain fried, just check the rating, which is high at 4.9 or whatever it is now.Enough hatefulness, you've been warned. Use your money to rent that C- movie you've been intrigued with.

This movie is a horrible mess. It's marketed as a teen flick but honestly, it's so scattershot it's hard to see who would really want to watch this. Why did they make this? Hard to say, but it has the earmarks of a production that didn't have a firm hand to guide it. It's not a movie, it's Daikatana.It wouldn't be a bad guess to say that this film was a David Lynch film that somehow got rewritten by some awful MTV Video Director then watered-down by the studio something barely marketable. And it fails. Nobody involved with this film should even bother to put it on their resumes or even cash the check in good conscience. It's one thing to take chances with plot and themes and filmmaking in general, but it's quite another to just throw a bunch of crap into a script and label it the same. It's not coherent. It's just an ugly waste of time.What can you say about a film that somehow manages to make Drew Barrymore's pathetic attempt at acting and trying not to go down the Madonna Road of Not Knowing When To Quit? That alone should make you change the channel or buy something else out of the dollar pile.