Jason Segel, I love you.
You're like a friggin teddy bear.
MARSHALL, ugh.
I gotta catch up on How I Met Your Mother....
*REMINDER*

"Everyone and everything is interconnected in this universe. Stay pure of heart and you will see the signs. Follow the signs, and you will uncover your destiny. -Jeff"
These are the first words of the film.
Instantly fell in love.

"Everything happens for a reason" is a motto I say to myself every single day. This films brings that phrase into play, and instantly my mind is just agreeing with the film completely, and I get overly excited and start 'yessing' the TV to death.

Don't you ever just stop and think maybe if you were…

"I just wanna feel that we both wanna, like, be in love. I want it so...bad."

Have you ever felt like you're drifting aimlessly through life? Have you ever longed for someone to love, a longing that runs so deep you can hardly contain your emotions when you're alone in your bed in the middle of the night? Have you ever felt like everyone's abandoned you? Have you ever felt like none of it means anything? Have you ever felt like maybe it does? I need to put this out there up front: at least 75% of Jeff, Who Lives at Home was viewed through tears, because this movie seemed to speak directly to me in a way that no…

An emotionally articulate, unusual and deceptively wise film about fate, the universe and the frustrations and disappointments of adulthood, as full-time slacker Jason Segel ventures out from his mum’s basement and begins a tentative day of discovery, interacting with his uptight brother (Ed Helms) and trying to read some mysterious cosmic signs (following several viewings of the film Signs) that relate to the significance of the name Kevin. It’s funny, unpredictable and full of insights about love, loneliness and life, aided by Segel’s fine performance, though a subplot about mum Susan Sarandon’s romantic re-awakening seems a bit forced – and smugly progressive – in comparison. Despite that, and some concessions to conventionality, this consistently interesting indie is still likely to…

Normally I don’t care for the Duplass brothers’ brand of movie making or the whole mumblecore movement in general. Aimless plotting, sloppy camera work and characters I can’t remotely connect with typically make for a frustrating viewing experience so Jeff, Who Lives at Home wasn’t high on my watch list. Yet whilst this still has the ambling story I rather enjoyed it thanks to some strong casting and an endearing protagonist.

Jason Segel as the pot smoking loser at the centre of the story makes for a sweet and childlike central focus. In lesser hands Jeff could be little more than a one-note caricature but Segel’s natural charm makes the character work. Ed Helms is equally great as the passive-aggressive…

What can I say? I am not at all familiar with the Duplass brother's work nor the supposed mumblecore movement that this type of film belongs in. Now, I should reiterate that I "think" I am not familiar with the mumblecore movement. The type of guidelines set for classifying as mumblecore are very broad and not exact. So in reality I could have been unknowingly watching mumblecore all along. In any case Jeff, Who Lives at Home was a interesting watch but nothing at all inventive or unique.

The Duplass film contained amateurish camerawork that attracted unwarranted attention (thus bringing us out of the scene) by a constant zoom and retracting floating lens. Some of the dialogue for being a…