movie review of Jeff Who Lives T Home

Jeff Who Lives At Home' starringJason Segel, Ed Helms, Judy Greer and Susan Sarandon.
Directed  by Maurice and Jay Duplass
 
     Do you like slacker films about 20 or 30 something people that are going nowhere? If you do you'll
love Jeff Who Lives At Home. Jeff, played by Jason Segel is a 30-year old pot smoker living in the basement of his mother's house. His mother is played by Susan Sarandon a widow now for many years. [ In real life Sarandon  is a veteran movie star who's got one hell of a social consciene - but not in the film].
      "I can't help but wander about my destiny," says Jeff, as he sits on the basement couch, smoking the weed at the movie's start.
     Mom and Jeff's older brother Pat, played by Ed Helms, see Jeff as a complete failed flake. But soon the film shows Pat as a man with problems to, especially with his wife played by Judy Greer.
     Jeff is haunted or obsessed with what he calls 'destiny'. This leads Jeff to screw up a simple task that his mother asks him to do, namely buy some glue at the local Home Depot and fix a broken shutter.
   For the next  80 minutes or so, Jeff, Pat and the female leads travel across  Baton Rouge Louisiana. The film unrolls in just one day that,s full of fun, sadness, interacial violence, interracial same sex romance, near tragedy and just plain silliness.
    "You and mom will never understand me," Jeff cries out to Pat from the cemetary where their father is buried. But at film's end perhaps Jeff's mother and brother do understand him. In any case, this is a movie about a slacker who finally does something worthy in his life. Brothers Maurice and Jay Duplass have co-wrote and directed  one fine film.