Jeff, Who Lives at Home

2011

Action / Comedy / Drama

17
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 62% · 144 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 62% · 25K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 66322 66.3K

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Plot summary

Dispatched from his basement room on an errand for his mother, slacker Jeff might discover his destiny (finally) when he spends the day with his brother as he tracks his possibly adulterous wife.

Director

Mark Duplass Photo
Mark Duplass

Top cast

Matt Malloy Photo
Matt Malloy as Barry
Katie Aselton Photo
Katie Aselton as Hostess
Judy Greer Photo
Judy Greer as Linda
Steve Zissis Photo
Steve Zissis as Steve
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692.82 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 23 min
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1.23 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 23 min
Seeds 15

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by palavitsinis 7 / 10

Pleasant and sweet surprise

Well, there are two ways to go about this movie. There's the way of a nice superficial 2 or 3 out of 10 and then you can actually try and understand it a bit. This was what I chose. The movie is heartbreaking. It's kind of random and weird but if you go along and stick with it, you can see that this is a masterpiece. The problems it discusses are there more and more frequently the past few years. It's a movie of its time, and it touches all the sensitive issues. It discusses about the alienation between family members as well as our inability to understand the different in all aspects of life, respect it and just nurture it. It also gets into the marital issues that drive so many couples apart. And although these seem a lot, and there are even more, it makes it. It gets you a small sample of everything, emotions flooding and leading you to maybe cry a bit but hopefully be a better person by the end of the movie.
Reviewed by anthonyehler 7 / 10

A story about lost individuals becoming a family again

Jeff, Who Lives At Home is a great example of an indie film. Jeff, a 30-year-old slacker, is searching for meaning in an aimless life, looking at pop culture references for a sign.Jeff's journey may seem like a simple one, but his mission to buy wood-glue for a broken shutter is not dissimilar to Odysseus's epic return. The twist in the third act underscores the idea that within all of us lies a destiny. (Jeff, Who Becomes a Hero, as a title, would've given it away.) Jason Segel gives a great goofy charm to the lead character, and he is ably supported by Ed Helms as his obnoxious and insensitive brother. Susan Sarandon is faultless as the mother looking for a sign of her own as she suffers bleak corporate office cubicle.Ultimately, this is not only a comedy about a slacker living in his mother's basement, but a hopeful look at family and what that word means. It starts slow, then reveals some wonderful surprises.
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