January 1, 1998
Home Fries (1998) *
Jake Busey plays a psychotic military helicopter pilot, who uses his Cobra attack chopper to kill his stepfather. Seems the old goat's been fooling around with an innocent young girl and has made her pregnant. But then, influenced by his equally psychotic mom (O'Hara), Busey goes after the pregnant girl herself, and what used to be a rollicking black comedy, soon becomes a thoroughly tasteless and unpleasant mess. Call me old-fashioned, but a murder of a pregnant woman doesn't strike me as particularly funny, even when she's played by Drew Barrymore.