Then, Jeff's mother Sharon (Susan Sarandon) calls him from work to remind him of the one task she'd like from him to make her birthday special: a piece of a pantry door has broken and Jeff is to go to the store to buy some wood glue to fix it. Instead, they are defining the film's protagonist, a lonely man at a crossroads who post-bong-hit finds meaning in an infomercial and a phone call to the wrong number. The Duplass Brothers are not, as you might suspect, having a laugh at Shyamalan's expense, as tempting as that becomes with his ongoing artistic descent.
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The film opens with what first appears to be a philosophical statement an onscreen quote expands line by line, becoming a little more dubious with each addition and then getting attributed to simply "Jeff." He is shown to be recording his thoughts on Shyamalan's alien invasion movie on what is revealed to be a toilet in use. Jeff is a big believer in signs, both as in indications of destiny and as in M. Jason Segel holds the title role, playing a 30-year-old stoner/slacker who indeed lives in the basement of his mother's house. Thus, the Duplasses were able to secure a $10 million budget to make another indie dramedy as they saw fit. Reilly and Jonah Hill, was acclaimed and at least close to profitable.
The siblings' first quasi-mainstream feature, Cyrus (2010) starring John C. This latest release was Jeff, Who Lives at Home, a film written and directed by brothers Jay and Mark Duplass, the biggest filmmakers to emerge from the Mumblecore movement. Paramount recently invoked the specialty division for just the second time in the past eighteen months. But whereas Disney sold off Miramax Films after scaling it back to almost nothing, the Paramount Vantage banner remains in rare use on modest films with limited commercial prospects.
Like Disney, Paramount has all but gotten out of the independent film business to focus their efforts on a small number of big budget movies.
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