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Jeff, Who Lives at Home

2012 · 83 min

A gentle, meandering day-in-the-life comedy-drama that finds quiet profundity in ordinary people's messy lives.

Genres
Drama, Comedy
Tagline
The first step to finding your destiny is leaving your mother's basement.
Overview
Dispatched from his basement room on an errand for his mother, slacker Jeff might discover his destiny (finally) when he spends the day with his brother as he tracks his possibly adulterous wife.

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • fate
  • identity
  • love
  • redemption
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
  • road trip
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language strong
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror0
Humour7
Realism8
Romance4
Tension4
Darkness3
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Genres
drama, comedy
Directed by
Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
Written by
Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
Starring
Jason Segel, Ed Helms, Susan Sarandon, Judy Greer, Rae Dawn Chong, Steve Zissis, Evan Ross, Matt Malloy
Music
Michael Andrews
Cinematography
Jas Shelton
Runtime
83 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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