Momma's Man (Widescreen Edition) - Award-Winning Independent Drama Film | Perfect for Movie Nights & Family Entertainment
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Product Description Bumped from a flight back to Los Angeles and the life, wife and infant daughter that await him there, Mikey (Matt Boren) returns to his childhood home, a cluttered, cocoon-like Manhattan loft presided over by his bohemian parents. "You can stay here as long as you want," Mikey's mother tells him. But in Azazel Jacobs' Momma's Man, what begins as a respite from adult responsibility becomes a premature mid-life crisis. Re-installed in a household saturated with two generations of bric-a-brac evoking days gone by, Mikey starts to regress and drift back to an awkward youth he never outgrew. To realize this "modesty scaled movie with a heart the size of the Ritz" (New York Times), writer-director Jacobs cast his real life parents, artist Flo Jacobs and underground film legend Ken Jacobs (Star Spangled to Death), as Mikey's benevolent mother and father, and the Jacobs' family apartment as an archive of the unconscious where free floating anxiety renders Mikey a prisoner of his own nostalgia. Deftly balancing "melancholy emotional realities with unexpected moments of Chaplinesque comedy" (Variety), Momma's Man is a funny, touching, and bracingly honest look at the pleasures and perils of yearning for the imperfect past. Review One of the Best Films of 2008 --Entertainment Weekly, Time Out NY, NY PostThis is Independent Film Defined. --Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
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I'm so glad that Azazel Jacobs made this film and recorded for (hopefully eternity) his parent's fascinating loft. Ken Jacobs's 2 film classes comprised my entire college education. If I had taken no other classes besides his, it would not have mattered. I gained a completely new way of looking at the world. Suddenly, there was a lot not to like about previously accepted institutions like Capitalism and Ronald Reagan. In fact, I've completly adopted his scathing anti-capitalist stance and his hatred of the overclass sociopaths (Ken on the great recession: "the big winners will walk away and keep looting and the rest of us will be further impoverished.") For every kid from upstate who every dreamed of creating art in NY (never mind your seedy lou reed/lower east side trips), Ken and Flo are two people who really did it. Watching them in their home environment, looking at and creating film (and seeing the same kitchen table (off the street) where I interviewed him in 1997 for a school paper) was a real treat. As far as the storyline is concerned, I think the movie would have been more compelling if Azazel had played himself instead of using the character Mikey. But it is still a wonderful film full of humor and poignant moments.
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