Home Again (2017)

IMDb plot summary: Life for a single mom in Los Angeles takes an unexpected turn when she allows three young men to move in with her.

Directed by Hallie Meyers-Shyer. Starring Reese Witherspoon, Michael Sheen, and Candice Bergen.

Home Again stars Reese Witherspoon as a separated mother moving back home to the house she inherited from her father. She soon crosses paths with three aspiring filmmakers who end up living in her guesthouse and becoming very close with her and her family. This is... an exact medium movie. Witherspoon is always a charismatic actress, and it's pleasant to watch her forming relationships with these younger men as she figures out her new life, but none of them have much chemistry with her, and the dramatic scenes have a very forced earnestness that often made me roll my eyes a bit. I do appreciate on one hand that it doesn't end with the predictable romance formula I thought it was setting up, but it's kind of clumsy in how it handles it and makes it feel like the movie is a bit unfinished. So... an extremely mixed bag. Nothing horrendous, but nothing great, and it lands right around the middle of my chart.

How it entered my Flickchart:

Home Again < Pete's Dragon (1977)

Home Again > K-19: The Widowmaker

Home Again > The Happiest Millionaire

Home Again > The Good Dinosaur

Home Again < Wreck-It Ralph

Home Again > Dunkirk

Home Again > The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

Home Again > Maverick

Home Again > Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites

Home Again > Certain Women

Home Again > The Wailing

Final spot: #2106 out of 3962, or 47%.