Who Is Myers-Shyer's Inadequacies In Home Again

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Of the glaring inadequacies in the writing of Home Again, Myers-Shyer’s dialogue stands out as some of the worst. Her film’s run-time is peppered with conversations that roll off her actors’ tongues so unnaturally that they leave audience members cringing. Numerous scenes are particularly memorable for their poorly-scripted discourse, but two in particular stand out. The first is between Alice and her lover-slash-guest house live-in, Harry. Alice is in anguish when Harry misses the entirety of a dinner party she invited him to, which was intended to be their debut as a couple. When Harry comes home, he enters Alice’s room to beg for her forgiveness. Alice, however, says she's too old to cry over boys— which, food for thought, is what Alice is doing in her first scene in the movie— and that because of his age he’s bound to keep screwing …show more content…

For “struggling filmmakers”, Harry, Teddy, and George seem to have a lot of things go right for them: After being kicked out of the motel they’d been staying at because they’d run out of money, the three men conveniently earn an invite to live with the daughter of their favorite director. Furthermore, while living in Alice’s guest house, the boys’ biggest quandary is how to reconcile working together with striving for their own individual success: George working on a screenplay other than the trio’s own is seen as a betrayal by Harry, as is Teddy’s secret audition for a television pilot. Like Alice, there simply isn’t much at stake for the boys: even if they didn’t make it in Hollywood, they could always go home to their families— they just didn’t want to. Perhaps because she was born into the entertainment industry, Myers-Shyer is unable to write realistic struggles for her characters who weren’t. All things considered, the version of the starving artist that Myers-Shyer conveys in Home Again feels uninspired and

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