Review of Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2012) by David L — 30 Jul 2012
If you're going to make an allegedly off-beat life-affirming comedy about oddball interesting characters with personality flaws you need to make them funny and likeable. Right away Jeff Who Lives At Home falls flat, because Jeff (a gentle pot-smoking 30-year-old loser living in his mother's basement) doesn't engage you.
Five minutes in and you're already wondering where the film is going. Jeff's unsympathetic and unlikable brother works in a paint store and is having a bad time with his wife, who objects to his purchase of a Porsche.
An aggressive man mistakenly calls Jeff at home looking for Kevin and in his drug-addled state Jeff becomes fixated with everyone and everything named Kevin and gets on a bus across town where he bumps into his brother and.
.. we don't really care. The plot sucks, I'm afraid, and what takes this movie to the bottom of the ocean is bad casting and bad acting. There are plenty of awful movies which have been dragged over the finish line by good actors but this isn't one of them.
I left with half an hour to go and my wife tells me the action only became more and more trite and more and more unbelievable.
This review of Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2012) was written by David L on 30 Jul 2012.
Jeff, Who Lives at Home has generally received positive reviews.
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