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| Directed by | Dean Parisot |
| Produced by | Mark Johnson Lawrence Kasdan Barry Levinson Charles Newirth |
| Written by | Vince Gilligan |
| Starring | Drew Barrymore Luke Wilson Catherine O'Hara Shelley Duvall Jake Busey |
| Music by | Rachel Portman |
| Cinematography | Jerzy Zielinski |
| Editing by | Nicholas C. Smith |
| Studio | Flower Films |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release date(s) | November 25, 1998 |
| Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $15 million[1] |
| Box office | $10,513,979 (US)[1] |
Home Fries is a 1998 film directed by Dean Parisot, starring Drew Barrymore, Luke Wilson and Jake Busey. The script was originally penned by writer Vince Gilligan for a film class at New York University. It was filmed in Lockhart and Bastrop, Texas.[2]
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A young fast food worker named Sally Jackson (Drew Barrymore), unwittingly falls in love with Dorian Montier (Luke Wilson), the stepson of her lover, Henry Lever (Chris Ellis). She discovers Henry is married, and disgusted, she leaves him, although she is pregnant with his child. Dorian and his brother Angus (Jake Busey), both Army helicopter pilots, then accidentally kill him by scaring him to death by chasing his car with what appears to be an AH-1 attack helicopter. They decide to meet the woman that he was cheating with. In their search, Sally and Dorian fall in love while he gets a job at Burger-Matic (the fast food place she works at.) They both take a day off from work to go to the funeral, and he spots her there. Dorian is also faced with dealing with his feelings for her, his mother, Beatrice Lever (Catherine O'Hara), and Angus' homicidal desires of revenge.
Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film a mixed review, writing, "Home Fries is not a great movie, and as much as I finally enjoyed it, I'm not sure it's worth seeing two times just to get into the rhythm. More character and less plot might have been a good idea. But the actors are tickled by their characters and have fun with them, and so I did, too."[3]
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