Home Fries

Dean Parisot, who won a live-action short Oscar, made his feature directorial debut with this black comedy from a producer team that included Barry Levinson and Lawrence Kasdan. A philandering stepdad is the victim of vengeful Mrs. Lever (Catherine O'Hara), who sends her sons out to scare him to ...more

Dean Parisot's Home Fries captures all the quirkiness of Vince Gilligan's darkly comic screenplay while smartly letting the actors charm the audience. Drew Barrymore and Luke Wilson (who ended up dating during and after the making of the film) play characters whose actions should make them less than palatable to the audience, but their warmth and essential goodness win out. The director and the actors like these characters, and that gives the audience the opportunity to root for them while also ...more