“Jeff Who Lives at Home” — makes a mother proud [MOVIE REVIEW]
Jason Segel and Ed Helms star in Jeff Who Lives At Home. “Jeff Who Lives at Home” explores the misguided hopes and dreams of a family stalled in the slow lane. Jeff (Jason Segel), thirty years old, still living in the basement of his widowed mother’s home, spends his days watching the mediocre Mel Gibson movie “Signs” and smoking pot. Convinced that everything in the world is related by some sort of Karma, Jeff spends his time waiting for his own “signs.” Jeff’s mother Sharon (Susan Sarandon), stuck in a work cubicle doing some unnamed but mind numbing work, has reduced her maternal expectations and wants nothing more for her birthday than for Jeff to follow a simple four part command: take the money she’s left on the table, take the bus to the Home Depot, buy wood glue and fix the broken shutter on her dining room door. Jeff’s brother Pat (Ed Helms), allegedly the successful one in the family, is an insensitive jerk who bullies his wife and spends his afternoons at Hooters entertaining clients and coworkers from the paint store that employs him. This particular day, Sharon’s birthday, has other things in store for the three of them, when Jeff, on his way to the Home Depot…
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