Larry Oliver Film Reviews

  Home Again , the debut feature of writer-director Hallie Meyers-Shyer (born July 1987) is not a movie – it’s a sit-com pilot. It will remind you (if you have ever watched them) of New Girl crossed with Cybill by way of Two and a Half Men . Newly separated mother of two, Alice Kinney (Reese Witherspoon) moves back to Los Angeles to settle back into the house where she grew up. On a night out with friends to celebrate her fortieth birthday, she meets a group of would-be filmmakers – director Harry (Pico Alexander), lead actor Teddy (Nat Wolff) and screenwriter George (Jon Rudnitsky) – and ends up taking them home with her. They happen to have run out of money for a hotel, so whoopee for them, though they seem to have enough to buy rounds of drinks. Harry ends up in Alice’s bed, though Alice left him to it, sleeping on the sofa. She happens to be the daughter of the late celebrated filmmaker John Kinney and the actress Lillian Stewart (Candice Bergen). The guys have multiple freak...