it's been years since i saw this on video - probably since around about when it came out - but little fragments stick in my mind.. it's a darkly humourous suburban-hell type comedy -(SPOILERS?) something about a guy who seems to hate everything and everyone holding up in his house who starts to have an attraction to his strange and not-very-happily-married next door neighbor - he's not very likeable (despite at one point painting his room and himself blue and pretending to be underwater) but, through the development of his relationship with with his neighbor, he becomes more and more likeable.. they both seem out of place in the world they're living in and the possibility of escape together becomes a driving concern (end SPOILERS)... they're odd-balls and quirky and so is this little film - a small and goofy cast set in and around a few backyards in suburban - New Jersey, i think it was... i remember finding the female lead to be endearing and cute - and the male lead goes from being annoying to bordering on heroic.. i think i may have liked the music, as well - i don't quite remember... i'd see it again if i could find it somewhere.. i remember reading an interview with the director, all those years ago, in which she talked of wanting to direct an adaptation of Jim Thompson's 'Savage Night' - one of his most twisted novels - and i kept waiting and hoping to see it.. well, she ended up doing 'The Kill-Off', instead - another one i'm going to try to track down (i also remember being really impressed with that interview)...
Review of Home Remedy
