Home Again

Writer/Director Hallie Meyers-Shyer’s Home Again is a delightful piece of fluff about Alice Kinney, an about-to-be single mother (Reese Witherspoon), who moves back to L.A. from N.Y. with her young daughters (Lola Flanery and Eden Grace Redfield). 

Being the daughter of a deceased filmmaker, Alice has inherited his lovely home and through Hollywood happenstance meets three young aspiring filmmakers (Pico Alexander, Nat Woolf and Jon Rudnitsky), who, through the instigation of her mother (Candace Bergen), she lets stay in her guest house.  

The film is about nothing other than what I perceive as the loneliness of living in L.A. and the formation of family wherever and however one can find it.  And, that alone, makes it a worthwhile respite from the raucous thrillers of late.

I give Home Again a 3.9 out of 5.