A golden Gaytime of a movie – chocolate coated with crunchy bits – IDEAL HOME is an ideal movie if you want to have big laughs with a little social bite.

Archly and achingly funny, Steve Coogan is a queen bitch in chaps and stirrups, who puts the fey in Santa Fe, a culinary linguist and bon vivant, a gourmand grandpa, celebrity chef, called Erasmus, who with his partner and producer, Paul, played by Paul Rudd, have a happy and rather self-indulgent life together.

Their perfect existence is turned upside down when, at a dinner party, Erasmus is confronted by the grandson he never knew he had. With the child’s father in prison it seems he has nowhere else to go and so, after much debate they decide to take him in. With changes and challenges on both sides, this could prove a recipe for disaster.

The kid is a brat, ironically named Angel, who demands to be called Bill, played with stupendous surliness by Jack Gore.

It is the arc of Bill’s character that creates the dramatic and comedic catalyst to the ironically titled, IDEAL HOME.

Erasmus and Paul must redefine their definitions of home while Bill discovers a new security, a foundation after being a fugitive with his feckless father.

Like any family, this blended family does not always run smooth, but the ingredients of heart and humour, serves up one of the most deliciously funny films of the year.

Written and directed by Andy Fleming, IDEAL HOME is vulgar, but in the nicest possible way, made endearing by the chemistry between Coogan and Rudd. Their bickering banter is a sound and sight to behold and the script blesses them with absolute zinger lines and ripper ripostes.

IDEAL HOME illustrates that an ideal home is a home of love, not perfect, not romantic, but disarrayed, sometimes disillusioned.

IDEAL HOME has many layers. It’s fun, it’s festive, and it has substance. And it never abuses that substance.

The films location is an ideal home for the narrative. Sante Fe lends its unique South-western aesthetic to the film’s sumptuous backdrops, from the ubiquitous and iconic pueblo style architecture, to the historical Loretto Chapel and the funky, immersive art attraction Meow Wolf.

Built on solid foundations of character, plot, drama and comedy, IDEAL HOME is a great place to visit and maybe you’d want to live there.