Jason Segal and Ed Helms Score in this Relationship Comedy Movie Review
Jason Segal and Ed Helms Score in this Relationship Comedy - Movie Review Movies for Grownups
Director: Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass.
Rated: R. Running Time: 83 mins.
Stars: Jason Segal, Ed Helms, Judy Greer, Susan Sarandon.
For 30-year-old Jeff (Jason Segel), the is sending him subliminal messages, and once he's deciphered the meaning of them he'll be ready to move out of his mother's basement. For his older brother Pat (Ed Helms), the universe (with help from his wife) is conspiring to deny him and fulfillment, a state of affairs that can only be resolved by buying a Porsche he cannot afford. For Jeff and Pat's widowed mother Sharon , the universe has condemned her to a life without love and the growing suspicion that her two sons are idiots. Like planets in opposition, the three are locked in their orbits, and only their mutual gravitational pull prevents them from spinning into the void. In Jeff, Who Lives at Home, we are invited to spend a day with these three — the very day they all learn hard lessons about their real places in the cosmos. As the hours tick by, we progress from being utterly unimpressed with them to laughing at their foibles, then sympathizing with their anxieties, and finally rooting for them to recognize the absolute rightness of where they are, right now. It's Sharon's birthday, and when she calls her slacker son from the office, she has just one request: that he buy some wood glue and fix a broken slat on a door at home. Jeff promises to do so, but there's a problem: His entire philosophy of life is modeled on M. Knight Shyamalan's sci-fi movie Signs — which, you may remember, involved a long series of far-flung coincidences that enabled to defeat alien invaders. In other words, the slightest thing — a half-filled glass of water, a tossed-off phrase, a souvenir baseball bat — can in the end have the most profound implications in the course of your life.
Movie Review Jeff Who Lives at Home
Jason Segal and Ed Helms deliver plenty of laughs in this comedy that takes place in a single day
Photo Courtesy Paramount Pictures Alongside Ed Helms, Jason Segal comically looks for signs to move out of his mother's basement in Duplass brothers' Jeff, Who Lives at Home.Director: Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass.
Rated: R. Running Time: 83 mins.
Stars: Jason Segal, Ed Helms, Judy Greer, Susan Sarandon.
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For 30-year-old Jeff (Jason Segel), the is sending him subliminal messages, and once he's deciphered the meaning of them he'll be ready to move out of his mother's basement. For his older brother Pat (Ed Helms), the universe (with help from his wife) is conspiring to deny him and fulfillment, a state of affairs that can only be resolved by buying a Porsche he cannot afford. For Jeff and Pat's widowed mother Sharon , the universe has condemned her to a life without love and the growing suspicion that her two sons are idiots. Like planets in opposition, the three are locked in their orbits, and only their mutual gravitational pull prevents them from spinning into the void. In Jeff, Who Lives at Home, we are invited to spend a day with these three — the very day they all learn hard lessons about their real places in the cosmos. As the hours tick by, we progress from being utterly unimpressed with them to laughing at their foibles, then sympathizing with their anxieties, and finally rooting for them to recognize the absolute rightness of where they are, right now. It's Sharon's birthday, and when she calls her slacker son from the office, she has just one request: that he buy some wood glue and fix a broken slat on a door at home. Jeff promises to do so, but there's a problem: His entire philosophy of life is modeled on M. Knight Shyamalan's sci-fi movie Signs — which, you may remember, involved a long series of far-flung coincidences that enabled to defeat alien invaders. In other words, the slightest thing — a half-filled glass of water, a tossed-off phrase, a souvenir baseball bat — can in the end have the most profound implications in the course of your life.