Jeff, who still lives at home

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Movie
German title Jeff, who still lives at home
Original title Jeff, Who Lives at Home
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2011
length 83 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Jay Duplass
Mark Duplass
script Jay Duplass
Mark Duplass
production Lianne Halfon
Jason Reitman
Russell Smith
music Michael Andrews
camera Jas Shelton
cut Jay Deuby
occupation
synchronization

Jeff, who still lives at home is an American mumblecore - tragicomedy from 2011 with Jason Segel and Ed Helms in the lead roles, and Judy Greer and Susan Sarandon . Jay and Mark Duplass are directing and writing the film . The premiere was on September 14, 2011 at the Toronto International Film Festival , in Germany the film was released on August 9, 2012 by the distributor Paramount Pictures . The gross profit is $ 4.4 million.

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The 30-year-old Jeff, who lives with his mother, believes - inspired by the film " Signs " - in a cosmic disposition. He receives several calls from a man who asks for Kevin . The caller obviously wrongly dialed and Jeff doesn't believe that he doesn't know Kevin. Jeff sees a sign in the calls. On behalf of his mother, he sets out to buy glue for a defective shutter, but lets himself be carried on looking for more signs. He follows a basketball player wearing a shirt named Kevin and is asked to play. After the game he smokes a joint with Kevin and gets robbed by him and his buddies. Jeff then meets his brother, who shows him his new Porsche, which he bought on credit without the consent of his wife Linda. As a result of a high-spirited braking maneuver, the Porsche is stopped by a tree and a dispute arises with the owners of the tree.

Jeff and Pat see Linda filling up across the street. An unidentified man is sitting in her car. You follow them in the broken Porsche to a restaurant. There Jeff organizes the next table so that Pat can eavesdrop on the two of them by calling his own cell phone, which Jeff has placed on the top edge of the bench. Pat breaks off the conversation because his Porsche is being towed, which he had parked next to a hydrant. When Linda and her companion leave the restaurant, they recognize Jeff, talk to him briefly and drive away. Pat and Jeff follow them. In between, Jeff steps onto the back step of a vending machine supplier whose company name includes Kevin . The two meet again by chance in the hotel that Linda and her companion drove to.

When Linda's companion fetches ice, they follow the man to the hotel room and are let in after an unsuccessful attempt to break the door down. Linda and Pat, who is not really listening again, speak out. Linda thinks about a breakup and decides to go to her mother's house.

Jeff sits down next to Pat in the shower and Pat really listens to his brother for the first time as they ponder what to do next.

Meanwhile, Jeff's mother Sharon, who calls Pat several times from her job in the open-plan office, realizes that an admirer she does not know is her friend and colleague Carol. After a fire alarm with the use of sprinklers, the two flee the office and drive towards Miami.

At the end of a day of events and emotional revelations, Jeff and his brother, Jeff's wife Linda, and his mother and Carol find themselves stuck on a bridge in a traffic jam.

Pat walks past his mother and Carol on the way to his wife, whereupon his mother gets out and follows him. Pat finds his wife and asks for a fresh start. Jeff, who stayed in the taxi, suddenly has an inspiration and runs past everyone until the accident that is the cause of the traffic jam.

A car has broken through the barrier and is in danger of sinking. Jeff jumps into the water, saves two children, and dives again for the driver. The car sinks, the driver shows up, but Jeff remains missing. Pat also jumps into the water and comes back to the surface with the lifeless Jeff. Jeff can be resuscitated.

Some time later, Jeff sees a report about the accident in his basement apartment. The father of the children he saved is called Kevin. In the last shot, he inserts the bar into the defective shutter.

criticism

“A tragic comedy carried by a pleasantly dreamy mood with plenty of dramaturgical freedom, which atmospherically accompanies the 'development journey' of the disoriented loser, which is accompanied by accidents, arguments and reconciliations. The 'wandering' dramaturgy clearly suffers from the attempt to narrate in a way that is compatible with the masses. "

- Lexicon of international film

“If you have a heart for lovable failures, you will experience a small, beautiful film in which funny and empathetic moments alternate. Perhaps a little too idiosyncratic to reach a mass audience, the tragicomedy scores with good actors and characters who get close to you. And possibly induce one to look for signs again themselves. "

- film-rezensions.de

“Jeff, who still lives at home, represents everything that makes an indie comedy just unbearable these days. [...] A completely irrelevant, uncomfortable film with uninteresting characters that would like to appear clever and shrewd, but achieves exactly the opposite. "

- filmfutter.com

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Jeff, who still lives at home . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2012 (PDF; test number: 133 396 K).
  2. ↑ gross profit . Retrieved September 18, 2012.
  3. ↑ Jeff, who still lives at home. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Jeff, who still lives at home on film-rezensions.de
  5. ↑ Movie review Jeff, who still lives at home (2012) , by Arthur Awanesjan on filmfutter.com