Review – Home Fries

This film aspires to the dubious status of white trash black comedy. I’ve liked cast members Drew Barrymore, Jake Busey and Catherine O’Hara in other productions, but here they struggle with a poorly-written script and a plot (involving a single mother, a burger joint, helicopter pilots, murder schemes, and so on) that is at best implausible. The movie features an occasional amusing bit of physical comedy, and the cast appears to give it their best. Unfortunately the characters just aren’t genuine enough to be engaging, and the overall production is neither clever nor funny. See if desperate