Mama's boy

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Movie
German title Mama's boy
Original title Mama's boy
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2007
length approx. 92 minutes
Rod
Director Tim Hamilton
script Hank Carnations
production Heidi Santelli
music Mark Mothersbaugh
camera Jonathan Brown
cut Amy E. Duddleston
occupation

Mama's Boy is an American comedy film from the year 2007 . Directed by Tim Hamilton , the screenplay was written by Hank Nelken .

action

The focus of this (in a broader sense) coming-of-age film is self-centered man Jeffrey Manus ( Jon Heder ) and his character changes when his mother Jan Mannus ( Diane Keaton ) begins a romance with motivational speaker Mert Rosenbloom ( Jeff Daniels ). Through the feud with him as well as the tenderly budding relationship with the Indo-folk singer Nora Flannigan ( Anna Faris ), he develops courage and compassion.

29-year-old Jeffrey, believed to be maladjusted, lives with his widowed mother Jan. His father's death motivated him not to move out and instead to protect his mother. In fact, he behaves comparatively childish and demanding, which u. a. Includes packed lunches. He works in a second-hand bookshop and devotes a lot of time to video games and comic books. LARP duels are among his few other interactions . From his point of view, this little world is threatened when his mother becomes engaged to Mert Rosenbloom and he moves in with his fiancée. One of the first sacrifices Jeffrey has to make is the end of the usual mini-golf rounds that take place Friday evenings with his mother. To eliminate this problem, that is to say, to get Rosenbloom to move out again or to end the partnership, Jeffrey relies on the help of the singer Nora, who also works in a coffee shop. While the conflict with his mother's partner slowly escalates - this includes a. manipulated slides of a presentation, the buttocks exposed incisions in pants and hidden drugs - Jeffrey discovers - to his own surprise - his adult side.

Reviews

Rick Groen wrote in Globe and Mail that the film quickly fell to the level of a "grotesque romantic comedy" . The cast is strong, but the script is "leaden" and predictable.

Joe Leydon wrote in Variety magazine on December 3, 2007 that the film was "arbitrary" and "clumsily executed" . The comedy is "aggressively bizarre" , but "scratchy uncomfortable" . The end seems like a desperate attempt to redeem the "unsympathetic" main character, who has already lost the audience's interest. The portrayal of Jeff Daniels is "surprisingly engaging" . Diane Keaton could not do much with a character that did not make much sense dramatically or emotionally.

With #exclaim! * @ # , The film received a mixed rating with a tendency towards negative. It was difficult to develop positive feelings for the main character Mannus, even if he provokes a few laughs thanks to Jon Heder's play. In fact, the entire film also contains some entertaining moments, which can be attributed in particular to the improvisation skills of the talented cast. Still, the film also has a tendency to get a little slow and boring - especially when trying to advance the narrative and develop the characters.

For The News & Observer , Craig Lindsey states that it is a warning signal if the corresponding website for the film is loveless and only functions to a limited extent. Likewise, the production company Warner Brothers legitimately made every effort to keep the popularity as low as possible through as little advertising as possible. Otherwise, the film essentially tells an identical story to Mr. Woodcock , a recently released comedy film from 2007. Lindsey regards the involvement of Anna Faris as the only salvation, whose presence gives him the feeling that the film is worth his time.

backgrounds

The first rumors that Diane Keaton would play the role of mother surfaced in November 2005.

The film was in Long Beach ( California ) and in Santa Clarita turned (California). It opened in selected cinemas in the USA on November 30, 2007, and was released on DVD in the United States on June 3, 2008. Otherwise, the film may have been shown. a. in theaters in Romania, Turkey and New Zealand.

The motion picture association of America has given the film a PG-13 clearance rating of PG-13 due to its use of sexual innuendo and drug use .

DVD

The DVD contains the film in two versions - in full screen and in widescreen format. There is also an unused scene and a comment from the director. The four additional scenes have a cumulative running time of 6 minutes and 17 seconds. Two deal with the young couple Jeffrey and Nora, one shows Jeffrey and his mother's fiancé discussing their conflict at a buffet, and the fourth shows a Scrabble game between Jeffrey and Seymour Warburton ( Eli Wallach ).

Otherwise, the DVD, the sound is mixed in Dolby 5.1, contains an anti-piracy video as well as various trailers, including those for Only About Her Corpse and Get Smart .

Trivia

An Indian short film of the same name was released in 2016. It transports the story of the Pandava brothers, Draupadi and Kunti from the Indian epic Mahabharata into the present.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  10. ↑ Film review by Joe Leydon, accessed on January 12, 2008 ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.variety.com
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  12. ^ Filming locations for Mama's Boy, accessed January 12, 2008
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  17. ↑ Mama's Boy Short Film Full on YouTube . Retrieved November 14, 2018.
  18. ↑ Devarsi Ghosh: Mama's Boy review: Delhi Belly writer gives Mahabharata a post-modern twist. In: indiatoday.in. September 7, 2016, accessed November 14, 2018 .