Home Movie (Chris Smith)
Definitely a disappointment coming after American Movie. Smith’s look at five highly unusual houses and their owners purports to explore living environments as physical manifestations of their owners’ life stories, but the material we see doesn’t resonate with this idea much at all. What makes it to the screen is a set of fairly deft, fairly funny, sometimes uncomfortable (yes, in a Mike Schank sort of way), portraits of eccentrics. Smith’s specialty, I suppose. B-
