Jeff, Who Lives at Home

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First time viewed: Yes
Current Release: Yes
Watched With: Jordan, Tyler

The Duplass Brothers are doing pretty well, they seem to be churning out these indie comedy dramas and each time getting to work with interesting casts and making nice studio friendly yet still slightly left of centre films.

And I love that Jeff's central conceit is based of his love for the film Signs. What an odd choice.

Now since there last big release, Cyrus, the camerawork has taken a step back slightly to the handheld crash zoom documentary approach. I recall Cyrus being just a bit more classically photographed but still rough around the edges. There's nothing off putting here though. And this also has the biggest action oriented set-piece I've seen them come up with too.

But as usual at the heart of it is some great improvising work from talented actors. Susan Sarandon is lovely, Jason Segel is an endearing oaf and Ed Helms is really good at playing an asshole. I really didn't like his character much but I guess that's the point. But it's nice to see these guys doing improvisations not just searching for a joke.