Writer/director Meyers-Shyer carries on the family business in treacly rom-coms with this ridiculously daft confection. By creating a central character whose life struggles are minimal (and those problems that she has are treated with alarmingly perfunctorily carelessness), there is little in which the viewer can invest. Little is credible, and dialogue-heavy sequences are easy to tune out of, but the two main saving graces are that it is shot sumptuously by veteran lenser Dean Cundey, and it is great to see Candice Bergen on the big screen again. Witherspoon - an actress who really needs some strong dramatic material worthy of her talents - may be on a mission to create female-centric and female-empowered movies, but Home Again does little more than simply perpetuate the standard unrelatable romantic fantasy staple.
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