Incoming! Reese Witherspoon as a newly separated loser in a new romantic comedy Home Again. The trailer is freshly released by Open Road, and we can’t wait to share all the details with you.
In the trailer, we get to see the outlines of this story, as well as Alice (played by Witherspoon) and her daughters bonding with new roommates. There was also a funny exchange in which Alice explains that she always goes crazy on her birthday, and then tries to go back to normal just before she reveals that she washed some of her new roommate’s (and more) clothes “only because I was doing a load and I’ve been up since 5:30.”
In the official teaser trailer, Witherspoon states that “Alice is a newly separated loser”.
At the end of Sweet Home Alabama, Reese Witherspoon finally gets to marry her hometown sweetheart, and they live happily ever after. Well… Let’s pretend a few years down the road that marriage didn’t work out, and that she realized that Josh Lucas is holding her back from being the woman she always knew she could be, but never got to. Now, in her 40s, she just wants to live again. She gets separated (exchanging Josh Lucas for Michael Sheen), and lets replace Alabama with Los Angeles…
After her separation, Alice decides to turn a new page in her life and start over in her hometown of Los Angeles with her two daughters. Soon enough, she meets three aspiring filmmakers who happen to be in need of a place to live. She agrees to let these guys stay in her guest house for the time being, but this arrangement ends up unfolding in new and unexpected ways. And just when she thinks she has it all figured out, her ex-husband calls upset because “three strangers” are living in her house.
Her new family and her new romance come to a screeching halt when her ex-hubby shows up, suitcase in hand.
In a nutshell, that is Home Again, but we are convinced it is secretly a sequel to Sweet Home Alabama. What do you think about this new Reese Witherspoon movie?
While people were just starting to talk about this movie, Rose Byrne was supposed to be the lead, and many thought that it will never see the light of day.
At the helm of this upcoming comedy is Hallie Meyers-Shyer as writer and director, the daughter of director Nancy Meyers. Meyers was supposed to be producing this film alongside Black Bicycle Entertainment’s Erika Olde, who is also the main financier of the movie. Of course, Nancy Meyers played a major part in getting this script in Witherspoon’s hands.
As with every Hollywood movie, in order to succeed, you have to put big names on the screen, so in the trailer, we see that this movie is written and directed by Hallie Meyers-Shyer, but produced by Nancy Meyers, with Erika Olde still in the mix, just not emphasized.
Next to Witherspoon, we will see:
Pico Alexander (A Most Violent Year, Indignation, and Fan Girl),
Nat Wolff (John Green adaptation Paper Towns, and upcoming supernatural thriller Death Note)
Jon Rudnitsky (Patchwork, Two-Bit Waltz),
Reid Scott (Demetri Martin’s Dean, Dan Egan on HBO’s Emmy-winning comedy Veep)
Lake Bell (Universal’s The Secret Life of Pets and also wrote and will soon direct What’s the Point a new comedy in which she will star with Ed Helms),
Candice Bergen (Murphy Brown, Boston Legal)
Michael Sheen (Showtime’s Masters of Sex, and Passengers with Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence).
The film will be released one week after another film with Wolff, the animated Leap! by The Weinstein Company, on September 8, 2017. For now, the date is clear for Home Again which is the only romantic comedy in that slot. For now, just one other film is slated for that weekend, and that is Warner Bros’ horror It.
We firmly believe that some fresh blood at the helm of this movie can only make it more successful, and the fact that Reese decided to do this kind of proves that this comedy has that something special that could make it a hit.
We still don’t believe it will be a record-breaker, but it has the potential to be wildly amusing. I mean, just look at the mix – an ex-husband, a new lover, mother, daughters and Los Angeles. Sooo much room for everything to go hilariously wrong, you would have to be a fool to mess this comedy up!
Honestly, it is a bit more original than other romantic comedies we have seen recently, so we will wait patiently until September to see if it will be as good as it has potential to be.
Until then, take a look at the teaser trailer: