Home Talent

In *Home Talent*, Charlie Murray and Phylis Haver preside over a crumbling boarding house that doubles as a crucible for aspiring performers, their lives a tapestry of delusion and ambition. The narrative orbits the volatile symbiosis between the landlady and her tenants—broke acrobats, fading flappers, and itinerant thespians—whose dreams of stardom collide with the stark realities of poverty and artistic pretense. Murray’s gruff pragmatism clashes with Haver’s nurturing yet brittle idealism, creating a charged dynamic that amplifies the film’s exploration of artistry as both salvation and self-destruction. The boarding house, a decaying relic of early 20th-century Bohemianism, becomes a microcosm of societal disillusionment, where talent is both currency and curse.