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4.5
Jeff Who Lives At HomeWe start out watching as a day in the life of Jeff begins. Jeff (Jason Segel) plays a gentle, harmless stoner who lives in his Mom's basement. He often lights up, watches TV, and, on this particular day...Jeff leaves the house around noon. He has to run some errands for his Mom, Susan Sarandon, and endure abuse and put-downs from his brother Ed Helms. One becomes pretty convinced that Jeff is the glue that binds together a family that is a little bit less functional than others. While his Mom is working her way through her day at an office job, Jeff gets caught in traffic. He decides to get out of his car and see what caused the total traffic jam. What he finds is that a car with an entire family in it, drove off the rails and into the water. There are some survivors, but the EMT, Police, and Firetrucks are caught in shock, as are the surviving family members. Jeff finds out from a survivor that there is another family member down there, still trapped inside their car, underwater. So he ignores all the mayhem, removes his shoes, and dives into the water. He rescues the young daughter of the family, freeing her from the car, and the emergency team on the scene does the rest. By the end of this day, we are no longer certain that our protagonist Jeff is the freeloading loser, or pot-smoking slacker, or even the unemployed half-man half-child that is emotionally dependent on his Mom. At the end of the day, Jeff's character reveals its self to be less easy to categorize or qualify. This is an uplifting film about real, everyday heroism and just what that is and what it is not.
