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But that's OK. His brother and, particularly, his mother are just broken enough to make Jeff, Who Lives at Home burberry ties stars out of four, rated R, opens today nationwide) a winner despite its energy-less title character.

Jason Segel plays Jeff with unkempt likability, portraying a 30-year-old who lives at home, records his thoughts on the toilet and hasn't had a girlfriend since his father died when he was a teen.

There's nothing wrong with Jeff as a character; lovable stoners are a Hollywood fixture. But they're just tough to hang a movie on. Jeff is no exception: He gets little to do beyond drifting from one dysfunctional relationship to another, looking befuddled and offering advice like "go with your gut."

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About the movie.

Sarandon has become an actress who has not only glided seamlessly into middle age, she's adroit at grappling with the slide onscreen. Her loneliness and fatigue with her sad-sack sons is heartbreaking.

Sweet and silly, Jeff begins with a hilarious homage to Signs, the M. Night Shyamalan thriller that posits that all events are predestined. It's a motif that rules Jeff the man and the movie. Jeff floats from toilet to bong to television, wondering what the universe has in store.

Jeff's brother Pat (Helms), meanwhile, is trying to convince his wife Linda (the terrific Judy Greer) that a financed Porsche will be the key to their ailing marriage.

Directed by burberry beige handbag brothers Jay and Mark Duplass (The Puffy Chair), Jeff begins as a sibling rivalry but soon becomes a showcase for Sarandon's Sharon, a mother who can't help but enable and curse her children.

Instead of being the Hollywood nagging mom, Sharon reveals scars that run far deeper than her kids'. With a single, insecure glance at her compact mirror, Sarandon conveys that this is a woman who never regained balance after her husbands death 17 years ago.

It's in those moments, of all things, that Jeff finds its stride.

Two scenes, in particular, are harrowing: A fight between Pat and Linda could have been lifted from a real marriage counselor's office. And a car crash in the film's finale unnerves for what it doesn't show.

It's not enough to make Jeff fire on all cylinders. burberry scarves Helms is solid as a stupefied Everyman, but it's largely the role he plays on The Office. And Segel's character simply isn't given enough back story; that his father died is tragic, but hardly an explanation for his oddball behavior.

But Sarandon is worth leaving home for, even if Jeff won't.

She's not just a CIA agent, she's a mother!

Ashley Judd is on TV, y'all, and she is not messing around! The movie star is getting her Liam Neeson-in-Taken on in her new drama series, Missing (which premiered tonight on ABC). In other words, she's going to do anything necessary to find her missing son. Yes, this is one mom who isn't afraid to get her hands a little dirty.

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Becca Winstone (Judd) is a former CIA agent who retired 10 years ago after listening on the phone to her husband Paul (Game of Thrones' Sean Bean!) a fellow CIA agent, die a horrific death. Now, Becca must rely on her old training and contacts when her 18-year-old son Michael (Nick Eversman) is kidnapped in Rome. (Shows like this are the reason our parents never let us go on Spring Break and/or study abroad!) So it's so long normal life of running a flower shop, hello life of vengeance! Sounds like Becca and Revenge's Emily Thorne (Emily VanCamp) would get along famously, no?

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