Take Me Home (2011)

Genre: Romantic Comedy

Directed by: Sam Jaeger

Starring: Sam Jaeger, Amber Jaeger, Victor Garber

Running time: 97 minutes

Thom is an aspiring photographer whose career is not going the way he wants it to. After getting evicted and losing out on a job, he goes back to driving his illegal cab around New York City. His life takes a sharp turn when Claire gets in the car. She is a workaholic who suspects her man is cheating on her and who just found out the father she has not seen in years has just had a heart attack. The two set out on a road trip where they will learn a lot about themselves and each other.

The two main characters in this film are played by a real life couple, and let’s just say they have better chemistry than Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Good for them. As for the movie itself, I appreciate the fact that, in spite of it being a romantic comedy, they did not go full Hollywood on us by inserting the token hot love scenes and giving us an ultra-predictable ending. It was more of a subdued than an in-your-face kind of movie.

Take Me Home is character-driven movie with a compelling premise. The scenery was also a nice element, but, in the end, it just seemed to drag on for me, even though it is not a long film. There was a little je-ne-sais-quoi missing to make it very good, but it is still a decent film with a nice storyline and good acting.

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