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From the Producers of Half Nelson and Maria Full of Grace
MOMMA'S MAN
A film by Azazel Jacobs
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 "modestly scaled movie with a heart the size of 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.
SPECIAL FEATURES
2008 * 98 min. * Color * Letterboxed (1.85:1) * Enhanced for 16x9 TVs
Executive producers: Tyler Brodie and Paul Mezey
Produced by: Hunter Gray and Alex Orlovsky
Written and directed by: Azazel Jacobs
Cinematography: Tobias Datum Editor: Darrin Navarro
With Matt Boren, Ken Jacobs, and Flo Jacobs
Music Supervisor: Joe Rudge Composer: Mandy Hoffman
© 2008 Artists Public Domain, Inc. All Rights
Reserved.
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