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Momma's Man
Directed by
Azazel Jacobs
Not Rated
2008
1h 34m
Drama
,
Comedy
6.0
91%
50%
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A man who has avoided his wife and child at home has a change of heart after an imposed stay in his own parents' loft.
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Cast of Momma's Man
Matt Boren
Mikey
Flo Jacobs
Mom
Ken Jacobs
Dad
Richard Edson
Tom
Dana Varon
Laura
Nan Arcilesi
Maggie
Eleanor Hutchins
Brigitte
Piero Arcilesi
Dante
Chris Galya
Teen Boy 2
Momma's Man Reviews
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
... insightful and involving...
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
It works from a specific place and lets audiences relate to that place, and the people in it, like trusted intimates.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
On 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.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
It's time to stop calling Azazel Jacobs a 'promising' filmmaker. With Momma's Man, Jacobs achieves the promise.
Seattle Times
Tom Keogh
Writer-director Jacobs is one of those rare filmmakers who forgoes conventional narrative in order to tell a story through the visual details of a world and the behavior of characters within it.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
A little miracle, Azazel Jacobs' lovely story of a life lost and found tackles big issues -- love, maturity, fulfillment -- in deceptively modest fashion.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
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.
AV Club
Noel Murray
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.
Boxoffice Magazine
Tim Cogshell
It's a lovely movie.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
A touchingly true film, part weepie, part comedy, about the agonies of navigating that slippery slope called adulthood.
indieWire
Rob Nelson
Jacobs's low-fi third feature forges unique stylistic territory for the American independent film.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
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.
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
Momma's Man is an act of daring.
L.A. Weekly
Ella Taylor
Momma's Man, in its lovingly twisted way, [is] a valentine to great parenting.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Sara Cardace
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.
Slant Magazine
David Phelps
Momma's Man, completely unshakeable, is implicitly nostalgic, about a nostalgic man, but only because it has such an unsentimental commitment to the gap between past and present.
Variety
Scott Foundas
[A] wryly comic, sometimes heartbreaking and altogether original film.
Oregonian
Stan Hall
Perhaps the most indispensable cast member, however, is the Jacobs' dwelling, their residence since 1966.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
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.
San Francisco Chronicle
The 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.
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