Jeff Who Lives at Home (2011)

If you think that kids these days are phase delayed, this is the movie for you. Well, you also have to buy into the indie movie themes of family dysfunction and the lack of slickness. Susan Sarandon plays Sharon, a woman worried about her two grownup sons, and with good reason. Pat (Ed Helms) is an obnoxious middle-manager obsessed with status. The film opens with him explaining to his wife how his having bought a Porsche was good for their relationship, while she saw her dream of a starter home fading. Which makes her decidedly unhappy. Jeff (Jason Segel) is the brother who decides not to compete at all. He is an amiable slacker who smokes marijuana, fails to have gainful employment, and who still lives at home. Jeff, strangely enough, is the driving force of this comedy. He believes that everything has meaning. The day the movie largely takes place, Jeff's only task is to get to the hardware store and buy some wood glue to fix the broken kitchen cabinet. This is a high bar for him, as it turns out. Before he manages to get out the door, his day is set in motion by a phoen call for Kevin. Most of us would attribute that to a wrong number, but not Jeff. For Jeff it is a sign, and it drives his entire day. Very fun unfurling of events across all three characters, who come together better for the day they spend together.