Mama's Boy

Mama's Boy (2007)

  • 8% of critics liked it
    (12 reviews)

  • 28% of users liked it
    (4,354 ratings)

Jeff Daniels, Jon Heder, and Diane Keaton star in director Tim Hamilton's domestic comedy concerning a slacker who finds his status as man of the house challenged when his single mother begins dating a self-help guru. As the influence of youth gradually gives way to the wisdom of age, the stage… More

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PG-13,
Directed By
Written By
Hank Nelken
Genres
Comedy
In Theaters
Nov 30, 2007 Wide
Warner Independent Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star

    It's not that the movie is utterly bereft of arresting moments. It's just that each of these prominently features one of the aforementioned supporting cast and not the so-called star.

  • Rick Groen, Globe and Mail

    Matters quickly regress into an antic romantic comedy, potentially buoyed by a strong cast but soon thwarted by a screenplay as leaden as it is predictable.

  • Joe Leydon, Variety

    Haphazardly conceived and clumsily executed, this aggressively quirky yet gratingly unfunny comedy appears set on the fast track to vidstore bins.

  • Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

    When the writer's this far off, the actors and the audience pay the price.

  • David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews

    ...there's certainly no understating the ineffectiveness of Heder's relentlessly (and irritatingly) over-the-top performance...

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • KJ P


    Mama's Boy is dumb, completely ridiculous and tries much too hard to be funny. Nothing can be saved, except the actors, for being in this garbage. This should not have been made!

  • Leigh R


    It was okay. Nothing special about it.

  • Chris G


    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… More

  • Dean M


    This comedy is bloody weird and funny, but stupid as what I thought it is a bit copy of <i>Failure to Launch</i> and <i>Mr. Woodcock</i>. Jon Heder's character is worst as a loser and asshole that I dislike him doing stupid thing to his mother's… More

  • Nicki M


    Kind of lame. A few funny bits, and Anna Faris ,as always , is worth watching, but Stepbrothers did this better.

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