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.
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Momma's Man (2008)
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Reviews Counted:13
Fresh:12
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.1/10
Consensus: Moody yet touching, Momma's Man successfully illustrates with elegant simplicity the struggles of a man consumed with his adolescence.
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... [More]
Starring: Matt Boren, Ken Jacobs, Flo Jacobs, Richard Edson
Director: Azazel Jacobs
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Top CriticThe 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.
10/24/08
Top CriticIt works from a specific place and lets audiences relate to that place, and the people in it, like trusted intimates.
10/03/08
Top CriticOn 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.
09/19/08
Top Critic... insightful and involving...
09/18/08
Top CriticMomma's Man is an act of daring.
09/17/08
Top CriticAzazel Jacobs, the writer-director of Momma's Man, has done more than make another precious indie family quirkfest; he's created a true vision.
08/28/08
Top CriticA little miracle, Azazel Jacobs' lovely story of a life lost and found tackles big issues -- love, maturity, fulfillment -- in deceptively modest fashion.
08/22/08
Top CriticIt's time to stop calling Azazel Jacobs a 'promising' filmmaker. With Momma's Man, Jacobs achieves the promise.
08/22/08
Top CriticA touchingly true film, part weepie, part comedy, about the agonies of navigating that slippery slope called adulthood.
08/22/08
Top CriticMuch comic pathos arises from the realization that Mikey has no perspective on his parents. They are as mysterious in their idiosyncrasies as anyone's.
08/19/08
Top CriticIt melds a poignant drama of adulthood with a surreal portrait of emotional paralysis, with an unexpected paean to the American avant-garde thrown in.
08/18/08
Top Critic[A] wryly comic, sometimes heartbreaking and altogether original film.
01/28/08
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