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| The very small-typed tag-line above the picture of Ed Helms as a boy reads, 'The first step to finding your destiny is leaving your mother's basement.' For Mark and Jay Duplass' Jeff Who Lives at Home |
QUICK REVIEW:
Jeff lives in his mother's basement and gets as his day's assignment to fix a shutter in a door. That leads him on an 'adventure' with his brother and later also their mother.
Jason Segel (Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)) is back as comical male #1 of today as the pot-smoking Jeff, who follows different signs in his uneventful life to look for his destiny. Ed Helms (We're the Millers (2013)) is perfect as his dope of a brother, and Susan Sarandon (Thelma & Louise (1991)) is predictably good as their mother.
As an audience member you don't take an incredible lot with you from the dramedy romance Jeff, but it matters less as the film is so good and makes you roar with laughter so many times.
It is well-written and directed by New Orleanian brothers Mark and Jay Duplass (Cyrus (2010)) and very unusually, - and almost completely successfully, - shot hand-held and with plenty of zooms by Jas Shelton (C.O.G. (2013)). Jeff Who Lives at Home is one of the year's most pleasant and funniest films, one to watch.
Watch the trailer for the film here
Cost: 7.5 mil. $
Box office: 4.7 mil. $
= Huge flop
[After premiering at the Toronto Film Festival, Jeff got its release many months hence in March 2012 and didn't score the audiences it deserved. It made 4.2 mil. $ in North America (89 % of the total gross), and its poor distribution was handled by Paramount Vantage.]
What do you think of Jeff Who Lives at Home?
Seen other movies by the Duplass brothers?
If so, how was/were it/they?
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