BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

HottWwjdIam There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

tradeczar About half-way through watching Take Me Home - and expecting to at any minute start becoming disappointed - I began marveling that such a good romantic comedy could have been ignored by the major distribution companies. But even with that self-inflicted distraction, I can say that my enjoyment of Take Me Home pretty much stayed high from beginning to end. Certainly the chemistry of the two main characters can be explained to a degree by the fact that they are husband and wife. But that does not explain the quality of the other performances or the outstanding direction by Sam Jaeger. Comedy is difficult and I cannot remember the last time I enjoyed a romantic comedy as much as I enjoyed Take Me home. That this movie did not hit the US box offices is a sad statement about the state of the industry. Amber Jaeger was simply outstanding as Claire. But all other things being equal, had Take Me Home been made twenty years earlier with Sandra Bullock in the lead female role, it would have been appreciated for how good it really is.

brushu Thought this was a fun "feel good" movie. No spoilers here. It is perfect to watch with the "one" you're closest to right now. If not maybe watch with somebody you'd like to get close to. Good humor, smart dialogue, fair to good acting. Very enjoyable all around. I also thought there were only a couple holes in the script. In other words the script continuity was within reason of being complete. The humor came in various forms. I like sideways subtle humor and there was a fair amount of that plus a little pratfall humor was fun. I did feel some of the drama was somewhat understated given the circumstances in the story. There were no major current social issues addressed. That was refreshing. The movie held respectful to the issues it did present. To top off the review I didn't notice any gratuitous stuff of any kind. For that I give it a ten.

TxMike This is a rather small independent movie brought to us by the husband and wife team of Jaeger and Jaeger. That scared me a bit but my wife and I watched it on Netflix streaming movies and found it nicely enjoyable.Amber Jaeger is 30-something New York career woman Claire. She comes home to find her husband at the table with a dim-witted but pretty younger lady, claiming she was doing some work for him. But when Claire makes a comment about their lives and putting off things, like painting the bedroom, the young lady comments as she is leaving, "By the way, I like the color of your bedroom walls." That is a subtle by clear affirmation of what Claire suspects.The movie is mostly about the road trip. Claire gets a phone message from her mom in Las Vegas, Claire's dad in California has taken sick and is in the hospital. At her wit's end she goes outside in the dark and rain, hails the first cab she sees, and says "Just drive" with no other instructions. She is in the illegal cab of Sam Jaeger (her real-life husband since 2007) who, as Thom, drives it to pick up some cash when things get tight. So he drives. They end up on I-70, when she awakes she finds they are in Pennsylvania. At first freaking out she eventually embraces the idea of driving to California, she agrees to pay him $1000 each day for 5 days, plus food and lodging expenses. Unfortunately she loses her purse and credit cards, they have to scramble to make it.In one funny scene they find the airport nearest their location, go there and pick up a series of people and/or families to make some cash. And another (which I have actually thought about doing) where he goes into a motel lobby in the morning, pulling a wheeled luggage, and loads up with donuts, muffins, and fruit at the free breakfast spread.Another funny scene is when they both wake up in the car and find they are in the desert with no road around. She had been driving the night before, they both fell asleep and she drove somewhere into the desert. They had to find the road again and get a tow to fix the car that wouldn't start.While this movie will never be confused with a big blockbuster movie, or one that will win an Oscar, it is indeed very smartly written and acted. We enjoyed it.SPOILERS: With a stop to visit his parents (and steal a bit of money) and a stop to visit her mom in Las Vegas, they make it to California but only in time for the funeral. She goes back to NYC, he stays in California, some time passes, she has moved into her own place, she gets a package delivered, it is a picture book Thom has published of his photos during their road trip. She looks him up in Northern California, the movie ends as they are together on Big Sur.

Maynard Handley It's a romantic comedy plus a road trip with some family drama. We've all seen a hundred of them. Which means it's all about the execution. And, sadly, that execution is only adequate, not great. The acting, the cinematography, even the story are fine. What's not fine is that, like too many movies, the director and/or scriptwriter treat us like idiots who have never seen a movie before. The first fifteen minutes are a waste of time, setting up the characters in a way that's utterly unnecessary; and there are a few similar such moments through the rest of the movie where we are told the obvious. Do yourself a favor and double your enjoyment of the movie. Skip through the first fifteen minutes in a minute or less, watching a scene here, 20 seconds there; jump in res media at 15 minutes, and experience the movie like an adult who doesn't need to be spoon fed genre conventions as though they're an audience member at L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat.