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Momma's Man (2008)

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Reviews Counted:41

Fresh:37

Rotten:4

Average Rating:7.6/10

Consensus: Moody yet touching, Momma's Man successfully illustrates with elegant simplicity the struggles of a man consumed with his adolescence.

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:Aug 22, 2008 Limited

Synopsis: After a holiday visit with his parents, Mikey is headed to the airport to return to his wife and newborn baby. Except he doesn’t board the plane. Instead he returns to his parents’ loft in lower... After a holiday visit with his parents, Mikey is headed to the airport to return to his wife and newborn baby. Except he doesn’t board the plane. Instead he returns to his parents’ loft in lower Manhattan, back to his childhood room that has since been converted to storage. Unsure of his own motivations, he makes up excuses about why he’s staying – his flight is delayed, his flight is cancelled. A day passes, and then another, and he calls home and work to say he can’t return just yet – his parents are getting old, his parents are ill, time is too short. His doting mother is more than happy to enable his procrastination, while his artist father is suspicious. From afar, his confused wife grows increasingly unsettled. Meanwhile Mikey moves back into his room, digging out notebooks and mementos, calling on old friends. As the days go on he becomes more and more entrenched in his adolescent sanctuary, and comes to a point where he must choose between life as it is and life as it was. --© Official Site [More]

Starring: Matt Boren, Ken Jacobs, Flo Jacobs, Richard Edson

Starring: Matt Boren, Ken Jacobs, Flo Jacobs, Richard Edson, Dana Varon, Nan Arcilesi, Eleanor Hutchins, Piero Arcilesi

Director: Azazel Jacobs

Director: Azazel Jacobs
Screenwriter: Azazel Jacobs
Producer: Hunter Gray, Alex Orlovsky
Composer: Mandy Hoffman
Studio: Kino International

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  • Bumped from a flight back to Los Angeles and the life, wife, and infant daughter that await him there, Mikey (Matt Boren) returns to his childhood home, a cluttered, cocoon-like Manhattan loft presided over by his bohemian parents. "You can stay here as long as you want," Mikey"s mother tells him. But in Azazel Jacobs' Momma's Man, what begins as a respite from adult responsibility becomes a premature mid-life crisis. Re-installed in a household saturated with two generations of bric-a-brac evoking days gone by, Mikey starts to regress and drift back to an awkward youth he never outgrew.
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    Jacobs's low-fi third feature forges unique stylistic territory for the American independent film.

    Full Review Source: indieWIRE | comment Comment
    08/24/09
    Rob Nelson
    Rob Nelson
    indieWIRE

    This simple but assured indie drama about the safety of childhood and the necessity of leaving it is particularly affecting because writer-director Azazel Jacobs draws so heavily on his own life.

    Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
    05/29/09
    J. R. Jones
    J. R. Jones
    Chicago Reader
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    The film is decidedly low-key. As such movies go, it’s enjoyable, though you might find yourself wishing Mikey would just pull himself together.

    Full Review Source: Sunday Times (UK) | comment Comment
    05/13/09
    Edward Porter
    Edward Porter
    Sunday Times (UK)

    This is one of the most tiresome recent examples of American independent cinema.

    Full Review Source: Observer [UK] | comment Comment
    05/13/09
    Philip French
    Philip French
    Observer [UK]

    It's a quiet film, with its own measured pace, but it has more painfully astute observations than most comedies with 10 times the budget.

    Full Review Source: Independent on Sunday | comment Comment
    05/13/09
    Nicholas Barber
    Nicholas Barber
    Independent on Sunday

    Awkward pauses and gestures and moments of self-examination give it a rich texture. It’s a lovely work, sad and funny. A melancomedy, if you will.

    Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
    05/08/09
    David Jenkins
    David Jenkins
    Time Out

    Azazel Jacobs' film is an enjoyably idiosyncratic tribute to his own eccentric family, and it adopts a fascinatingly novel approach to the strange anxieties of thirtysomething men.

    Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
    05/08/09
    Jon Fortgang
    Jon Fortgang
    Channel 4 Film

    Slyly funny and genuinely original, Momma’s Man represents that rarest of things, a truly independent American movie.

    Full Review Source: Times [UK] | comment Comment
    05/08/09
    Wendy Ide
    Wendy Ide
    Times [UK]

    This enjoyable lo-fi indie pictures an extreme example of a failure to sever the apron strings.

    Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
    05/08/09
    Cath Clarke
    Cath Clarke
    Guardian [UK]

    It’s a beguiling premise, and one writer-director Azazel Jacobs explores with skill, tenderness, and prodding wit.

    Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph | comment Comment
    05/08/09
    Tim Robey
    Tim Robey
    Daily Telegraph

    Azazel Jacobs’ lo-fi indie comedy unfolds slowly but with patient precision.

    Full Review Source: Total Film | comment Comment
    05/08/09
    Kevin Harley
    Kevin Harley
    Total Film

    Enjoyable, thought-provoking and emotionally engaging independent drama with a great central performance from Matt Boren.

    Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
    05/08/09
    Matthew Turner
    Matthew Turner
    ViewLondon
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    Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
    04/23/09
    Betsy Sherman
    Betsy Sherman
    Boston Phoenix

    Perhaps the most indispensable cast member, however, is the Jacobs' dwelling, their residence since 1966.

    Full Review Source: Oregonian | comment Comment
    10/24/08
    Stan Hall
    Stan Hall
    Oregonian

    The main character in Momma's Man shuffles through life like he's been poleaxed, and you may feel the same after you watch this slow-motion indie exercise about a grown-up who returns home and can't leave.

    Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
    10/24/08
    San Francisco Chronicle
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    The production has a patient, observant tone, which almost disguises the fact that Momma's Man can't decide what kind of movie it wants to be.

    Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
    10/24/08
    Jeffrey M. Anderson
    Jeffrey M. Anderson
    Combustible Celluloid

    The film drags at times, and watching Boren take Mikey further and further into a state of absolute immobility is difficult to watch, but his performance is so spot-on that you can't help but be drawn into figuring out what's going on with him.

    Full Review Source: Cinematical | comment Comment
    10/18/08
    Kim Voynar
    Kim Voynar
    Cinematical

    It works from a specific place and lets audiences relate to that place, and the people in it, like trusted intimates.

    Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
    10/03/08
    Michael Phillips
    Michael Phillips
    Chicago Tribune
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    On the surface, it's a straightforward low-budget tale about a grown man who visits his parents and refuses to leave. Yet deeper, darker currents move through Momma's Man, eddying around fears of letting go on both sides of the generational divide.

    Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
    09/19/08
    Ty Burr
    Ty Burr
    Boston Globe
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    ... insightful and involving...

    Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | comment Comment
    09/18/08
    Carrie Rickey
    Carrie Rickey
    Philadelphia Inquirer
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