Momma's Man, in its lovingly twisted way, [is] a valentine to great parenting.
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Momma's Man (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 17 Fresh: 16 Rotten:1 Average Rating: 7.7/10
Rated: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
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 Manhattan, back to his childhood room that has since been converted to storage. Unsure of his... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Matt Boren, Ken Jacobs, Richard Edson, Piero Arcilesi, Eleanor Hutchins
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Azazel 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
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A slow albeit riveting look at a 30-year-old married man who has regressed to childhood for a while.
08/25/08
Indie films about arrested adolescence have practically become a genre, but the way Jacobs avoids pat explanations...is so refreshingly low-key that it's easy to feel like Jacobs has reinvented the wheel.
08/22/08
A 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
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It's time to stop calling Azazel Jacobs a 'promising' filmmaker. With Momma's Man, Jacobs achieves the promise.
08/22/08
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A touchingly true film, part weepie, part comedy, about the agonies of navigating that slippery slope called adulthood.
08/22/08
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In his simple, minimalist way, Mr. Jacobs has fashioned the quintessential interior New York film.
08/21/08
An original and unsettling snapshot of parents wondering if and how to reach out to their child, and a man whose boyhood problems suddenly seem a lot easier than they used to.
08/21/08
For a young filmmaker whose previous movie, The GoodTimesKid, suggested he was a precocious talent, this moody, pitch-perfect ode to immaturity ironically proves he’s finally grown up.
08/21/08
Within its modest docudrama style, Momma’s Man addresses universal experience as presumptuously as does a mainstream Pop epic.
08/20/08
Much 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
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It 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
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The movie is quiet and minimal in its dialogue, and it has flashes of humor and thoughtfulness. However, it’s also unbearably slow and hard to empathize with Mikey.
07/01/08
The film is both lyrical in its near wordless storytelling and humorous in its warm observation of human behaviour.
01/31/08
[A] wryly comic, sometimes heartbreaking and altogether original film.
01/28/08
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