Family matters
Lessions in Love: Anywhere But Home
Anywhere But Home
Genre: Romcom
Director: Seth Gordon
Cast: Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon
Story: A young couple discovers that family comes first
Bottomline: The leads’ chemistry keeps it going!
When was the last time you were free for your beloved during the vacations? Did your family eat up your time during holidays? Is there a way where both can be satisfied? Seth Gordon’s film responds to these familiar questions in a heart-warming fashion.
Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon play a couple who want to sneak in Christmas holidays to Fiji when their peers are going back to family. They don’t want to do boring stuff, but fate has something else in store for them. Bad weather forces them to spend the holidays visiting their respective families and things are no longer the same.
First, they change for the worse as they come across embarrassing parents, humiliating stories about childhood, crying babies, wrestling action with brothers and other festive traditions. They can’t come to terms with the loud ways of expressing affection. But, along the way they learn a thing or two about love and loved ones. And, discover they are not as perfect as they think to be.
Vince and Reese are in form and their chemistry keeps you engrossed even when the jokes get banal and the script takes a uni-dimensional path. Pretty average fare that you can check out if you are bored.
ANUJ KUMAR
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