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Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2011)

 -  Comedy | Drama  -  11 May 2012 (Ireland)
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Dispatched from his basement room on an errand for his widowed mother, slacker Jeff might discover his destiny (finally) when he spends the day with his unhappily married brother as he tracks his possibly adulterous wife.

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Jeff, at 30, lives in his mom's basement, unemployed, looking for signs about what to do with his life. He answers a wrong-number call for "Kevin". Later, on a bus, he sees someone wearing a jersey with "Kevin" on the back. Jeff follows him. Meanwhile, Jeff's brother, Pat, a tone-deaf salesman, upsets his wife by buying a Porsche they cannot afford; Pat runs into Jeff soon after and they see Pat's wife with another man. At her job, Jeff and Pat's mom receives e-mails from a secret admirer; she tries to figure out who it is. Misunderstandings, errors, and confrontations abound. A backup on the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway brings things to a head. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>

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The first step to finding your destiny is leaving your mother's basement.

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Rated R for language including sexual references and some drug use | See all certifications »

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11 May 2012 (Ireland)  »

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Budget:

$10,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$855,709 (USA) (16 March 2012)

Gross:

$4,244,155 (USA) (11 May 2012)
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Directors Jay and Mark Duplass claim to have cried through the entire premiere of this film. See more »

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Near the end of the film Jeff is seen putting a blanket around his mother to comfort her and in the very next shot she is not wearing it. See more »

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The search for meaning in this chaotic world
4 July 2012 | by (United States) – See all my reviews

Jeff (played by Jason Segel from How I Met Your Mother) is the perfect idealist who is searching for meaning in the world after the death of his father. Everything is a sign from the universe, no matter how trivial it seems to his brother Pat (played by Ed Helms from The Office). The brothers have a strained relationship, as Pat mocks Jeff's every thought. They have an even touchier relationship with their mother Sharon (played by Susan Sarandon), who receives messages from an anonymous admirer at her workplace.

The film is driven by Jeff and Pat's pursuit of Pat's wife Linda (played by Judy Greer from What Women Want), as they suspect she is cheating on him. Throughout the course of the most adventurous day that you can imagine, Jeff, Pat, Linda, and Sharon undergo transformations that fundamentally change their relationships with each other and allow them to find meaning in this chaotic world.


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