OFFICIAL SELECTION: SUNDANCE, ROTTERDAM, NEW DIRECTORS FILM FESTIVALS — 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... more », 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 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.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
- (Momma s Family), a featurette on the clash of realities that takes place in Momma s Man. Azazel Jacobs returns to the set of the film and can t leave. (2009, 42 min., directed by Azazel Jacobs)
- (Capitalism: Child Labor), a short film by Ken Jacobs (2006, 14 min., b/w, music by Rick Reed)
- (Rain Building Music), Azazel Jacobs first film (1991, 7 min.)
- Audio conversation featuring Azazel Jacobs and his parents
Actors:Matt Boren, Ken Jacobs, Flo Jacobs Director:Azazel Jacobs Genres:Comedy, Drama Sub-Genres:Comedy, Family Life Studio:Kino Video Format:DVD - Color,Widescreen DVD Release Date: 05/05/2009 Original Release Date: 01/01/2008 Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/2008 Release Year: 2009 Run Time: 1hr 38min Screens: Color,Widescreen Number of Discs: 1 SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 1 MPAA Rating: Unrated Languages:English