Jeff, Who Lives At Home (*** out of ****)

The Duplass brother's make their films just right. They have an "Metteur en scene" (signature style) to filmmaking that is easy to love. Their films including The Puffy Chair and Cyrus all have this certain simplicity. They're all relative simple stories filled with characters that move with passive goals. Instead of creating giant problems, the Duplass brother's fill their stories with plain ideas and let the audience judge for themselves how attached they'll become to the story.

Jeff (Jason Segal) lives in his mother's (Susan Sarandon) basement smoking weed and watching Signs on repeat. He's looking for his destiny and any little connection to this goal is something worth chasing. He goes on a little errand one day that he believes will turn into the destiny he's been looking for. This goal causes him to cross paths with his brother Pat (Ed Helms) who suspects his wife (Judy Greer) is cheating on him.

Duplass Brothers are a mix of comedy and drama, but never does it lose its charm. Jeff, Who Lives At Home is not a feel good movie in a classic sense. Roger Ebert said it's a "sort of feel good movie". That seems about right. You'll laugh and come to care for these characters problems. That's it's goal and it success quite well.

*** out of ****