Jeff, Who Lives at Home

w/d   Duplass Brothers

Sweet, affecting comedy/drama based on a quirky interpretation of the concept of destiny. The film focuses mainly on two thirty-something overgrown children as they go through a series of misadventures plus a sub-plot involving their lonely and long-suffering mother.

The lead - Jeff, played by Jason Segal - carried the film. He was likable, believably abstract, a pacifist and remarkably tolerant of the foibles of the people around him. The film plays like a silly slacker comedy for an hour when it shifts to melodrama in the last 15 minutes, thereby changing the tone and overall effect on the audience. And it worked.

Pretty amazing.

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