Diane Keaton, Jon Heder, Jeff Daniels

A twenty-nine year-old slacker who lives with his mom realizes his sweet set-up is threatened when she hears wedding bells with her self-help guru beau.

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PG-13, 1 hr. 40 min.

Directed by: Tim Hamilton

Release Date: November 30, 2007

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DVD Release Date: June 3, 2008

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  • August 10, 2009
    It was okay. Nothing special about it.
  • March 31, 2009
    Jon Heder could win an Academy Award and the presenter would say that the winner is Napoleon Dynamite. Yes, he's back playing the same mundane character in Mama's Boy, a totally unfunny piece of crap. You know the basic premise from the title before going in. Napoleon's mom (Dia...( read more)ne Keaton, who is quickly challenging Kathy Bates for most dysfunctional mother roles in a career) wants to get out and meets a motivational speaker (Jeff Daniels). They go to war. He meets a hippie girl (Anna Faris) who he has feelings for and everyone knows it except himself. Yes, this film is that recycled.

    I'm going to be perfectly honest. The only reason this film got a full star is because Eli Wallach is in this piece of shit. Eli Wallach kicks ass. I suggest fast forwarding through Napoleon's schtick and checking out Eli. He's awesome. But not even Eli Wallach can make this turd float. If I actually laughed at anything in this film I might reconsider, but it is just so damn unfunny it's pathetic. How the hell did this blight on cinemea get released? What cash and sexual favors were exchanged? Who had fun with animals pictures? There has to be some reason for this to get made because it sure as hell wasn't because it was worth a damn.

    Flush it.
  • September 8, 2008
    A fragile boy raised to become a man of specific maternal needs, Jeffrey Mannus (Jon Heder) is now 29 years old and can?t move away from his mother, Jan (Diane Keaton). Ignoring his potential to instead stay protected under her wing, Jeffrey has grown into a bitter guy without mu...( read more)ch life experience. When Jan finds love with self-help guru Mert (Jeff Daniels), it drives Jeffrey crazy, leaving him desperate to break the two up. Jeffrey finds comfort in Nora (Anna Faris), a minimum-wage revolutionary who takes a shine to the loser, but finds his lack of ambition disturbing. Jeffrey now finds himself staring down a chance to finally find personal growth, caught between the life he?s comfortable with and the development of healthier emotional options. In the role of Jeffrey, Heder does what he always does, but with less energy and wit. He plays yet another idiot who's too retarded to grow up but ends up learning a valuable lesson in the end. As far as Keaton is concerned, she already had her share of disastrous comedies. Her performance as Jeffrey's mother is not worth mentioning. Faris' character spends most of the time singing blatant songs about corporate America, but she adds little interest to the story.
  • June 12, 2008
    I love love love Jon heder, he is so dang hilarious. This was labeled a comedy and I didn't think it was that funny. Totally predictable and the "jokes" were so lame. The story and idea was good but the execution was very poor. It was ok to watch it once and that will be it. Judg...( read more)e for yourself.
  • November 29, 2007
    A tired rehash of protagonist-as-punching-bag humiliation fodder.
  • November 5, 2009
    This is an OK movie, theres a laugh here and there but really nothing special.
  • November 4, 2009
    Ok que puede uno decir de esta, es simple un tipo que aun siendo un adulto da a entender que aun tiene el cordon umbilical se encela de su mama que inicia una relacion intempestiva y el tiene que lidiar con esa relacion de la peor forma pues en lugar de hacerce a un lado decide h...( read more)acerle la vida de cuadritos al novio y de paso fastidiar a su madre, mientras que a la vez el mismo inicia una relacion con una joven un tanto extraña, la trama no es maravillosa es como una de esas peliculas que cuentan una historia y la concluyen de la mejor forma posible
  • October 21, 2009
    This movie and the jokes in it were lame, but that's why I liked it. You don't have to think about anything...just sit back and enjoy the stupidity.
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  • August 10, 2009
    Had enough with immature jokes.

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  • Hinia
    September 17, 2007
    Counting the days!! This is gonna be great.

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