A man who has avoided his wife and child at home has a change of heart after an imposed stay in his own parents' loft.
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Azazel JacobsWriter:
Azazel Jacobs
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Matt Boren | ... | Mikey |
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Flo Jacobs | ... | Mom |
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Ken Jacobs | ... | Dad |
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A man who has avoided his wife and child at home has a change of heart after an imposed stay in his own parents' loft.
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
8 May 2009 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
O mamakias See more »Filming Locations:
Chambers Street, New York City, New York, USACompany Credits
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Written and Performed by Linus Huey
Courtesy of 2000 To The Unicorn Music
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Azazel Jacobs cast his real life parents, Flo and Ken Jacobs, as Mikey's parents. The New York loft featured in the film is in fact their own. See more »Goofs
(at around 40 mins) The father arrives back and half takes his coat off. It cuts away to the mother who beckons the father into the shot, where his coat is fully on. See more »Soundtracks
PreludeWritten and Performed by Linus Huey
Courtesy of 2000 To The Unicorn Music
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A whimsical, but painfully true film about a young man whose parents have unintentionally made life so comfortable for him that it impedes his ability to leave home and be a functioning adult. Mikey comes home to NY from California (where he has a wife and baby) on a business trip and stays in his parents' wonderfully eccentric and bohemian loft. He sleeps in his old bed and pulls out his childhood toys and comic books. He invents excuse after excuse not to leave creating a web of lies and eventually becomes so agoraphobic that he can't leave the loft. His mom, a first-class enabler (the name of the film is so true) constantly asks "Is everything OK?" while simultaneously offering him coffee, tea, oatmeal, soup and home-cooked meals as she psychologically undermines him. His shrewd dad is caught in the middle, he doesn't wan't to upset his wife, but in going along with her and Mikey, he marginalizes himself. Mikey has a childhood friend who also seems to be overstaying his welcome at his mom's place, which suggests that this is a generational problem that's not Mikey's alone.
According to the notes, this film was shot in director Azazel Jacob's parent's loft with his actual parents playing the roles of Mikey's parents. One of the pleasures of the film is their fabulously old-time loft-pioneer living space. It's hard for the Mikeys of this world to create their own identity in the shadow of such gifted parents. Momma's Man is a slow-paced film with beautifully shot scenes of New York City (maybe this what Mikey really misses).