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Momma's Man
Released: 07/05/2009
Released in key cities
Husband and new father Mikey should fly back to LA, but he just can’t board the plane. Instead he decides to reside in his parents’ Manhattan loft apartment. As the days and excuses accumulate, Mickey’s once-teenage sanctuary becomes a peculiar sort of adult trap.
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Guardian“They rise gamely to the challenge...” This enjoyable lo-fi indie pictures an extreme example of a failure to sever the apron strings...
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The Times“The family dynamic is explored empathetically and wittily...” Slyly funny and genuinely original, Momma’s Man represents that rarest of things, a truly independent American movie...
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The Telegraph“An odd premise, but executed with skill...” It’s a beguiling premise, and one writer-director Azazel Jacobs explores with skill, tenderness, and prodding wit...
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70 %
Channel4 Film“Comic, tender and slightly weird...” Azazel Jacobs' film is an enjoyably idiosyncratic tribute to his own eccentric family, and it adopts a fascinatingly novel approach to the strange anxieties of thirtysomething men...
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Total Film “Lo-fi indie comedy unfolds slowly but with patient precision...” As a result, the film’s quirks feel lived-in, right up to the subtly layered suggestions of the spot-on final shot...
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New York Times Movies“An extraordinarily tender film...” Episodically structured, “Momma’s Man” catches the rhythm of life through drifty interludes, fragmented exchanges and moments so delicate they would break in rougher hands...
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