You can even hear the comma in the way Jeff's frazzled mum (Susan Sarandon) talks to him on the phone.
#JEFF WHO LIVES AT HOME HOW TO#
As played by Jason Segel, he's a pudgy man-child who doesn't know how to help himself – rather like Jonah Hill in the previous Duplass movie, Cyrus, who also lived at home. Jeff has been living at home for far too long he needs to get out more. That comma also implies a kind of stasis. This in itself is a sign – that Jeff's pretty gullible. Night Shyamalan alien-visitation movie Signs. His opening monologue, spoken for some reason into a tape-recorder, testifies to his obsession with the M. Jeff (ahem) is a bit sad, a 30-year-old deadbeat who lolls about in his mother's poky basement, puffing on his bong and watching TV. The comma here speaks of hesitation, of doubt. The brothers Mark and Jay Duplass have hit the bull's-eye with their troubled family comedy Jeff, Who Lives at Home. With films, it crops up in the good (Happy, Texas), the bad (Dude, Where's My Car?) and the indifferent (Lust, Caution), but the pause it creates is cheering in a high-speed digital age where punctuation is losing its potency. Whether it's enigmatic, like Craig Raine's book of poems The Onion, Memory, or plaintive (Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?) or exhortatory (Rabbit, Run) or elegiac (Larkin's Going, Going), the comma makes a little hook to lure you in.
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