Jeff Who Lives at Home

After a barrage of depressing movies at AFI Fest this year, the relief of seeing something upbeat was immeasurable. Jason Siegal is perfect as the apathetic and impressionable hero. Against type, Ed Helms plays the dickhead here, and his self-reflecting journey is PROFOUNDLY better than anything in those Hangover movies. Susan Sarandon has never been better as a mom open to new things. The cast is superb and the concept is profound and builds to an exciting and fitting conclusion. The comedy is heartfelt the overall feeling after the movie is positive. The Duplass brothers, the mumblecore gurus behind this, did q&a after the show, and they both came off as kind of douchey. Maybe they were just tired. Or maybe they save up any warmth or gratitude for their movies. At any rate, I liked it.