Momma's Man (2008)

Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Writer/Director: Azazel Jacobs

Cinematographer: Tobias Datum

Composer: Mandy Hoffman

Cast: Matt Boren, Flo Jacobs, Ken Jacobs, Dana Varon, Piero Arcilesi, Richard Edson, Eleanor Hutchins

After visiting with his aging boho parents in their chaotic New York flat, Mikey, in the midst of some sort of breakdown, finds it impossible to return to California to his wife and infant daughter, instead retreating back to his adolescence in the comforting bosom of the family home, in Jacobs’s beautifully understated and painfully authentic feeling depiction of fear and anxiety, leavened somewhat by moments of gentle humour and great dollops of alluring humanity. Iain.Stott