Mama's Boy
A 29-year-old slacker (Jon Heder) who still lives with his mother (Diane Keaton) realizes his sweet set-up is threatened when she hears wedding bells with her self-help guru beau. His mother then decides to go to great and bizarre lengths to find her son a wife.
27 August 1976, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
25 February 1968, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, UK
7 November 1983, Waterloo, Iowa, USA
19 February 1955, Athens, Georgia, USA
16 August 1971, Hanford, California, USA
12 March 1979, Calabria, Italy
7 December 1915, Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
15 February 1984, Woodstock, Virginia, USA
10 March 1980, Mancus, Colorado, USA
5 January 1946, Los Angeles, California, USA
July 02, 2008
The film is as grating as the people who inhabit it.June 23, 2008
The picture is merely series of loose gags stumbling into each other while Heder makes faces, Hamilton spends more time on his soundtrack selections than his storytelling, as the rest of the cast waits patiently for their paychecks to clear.December 03, 2007
Haphazardly conceived and clumsily executed, this aggressively quirky yet gratingly unfunny comedy appears set on the fast track to vidstore bins.May 31, 2008
...unless you are related to Keaton or Heder, I wouldn't advise you go out of your way to see it.May 21, 2009
...there's certainly no understating the ineffectiveness of Heder's relentlessly (and irritatingly) over-the-top performance...December 14, 2007
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.August 09, 2008
Ana Faris is the best thing in this predictable, often silly Jon Heder movie about a spoilt son trying to sabotage his mother's new relationshipNovember 29, 2007
When the writer's this far off, the actors and the audience pay the price.July 01, 2008
Things sadly come to a grinding halt when the schtick wears thin and starts to repeat itself.December 14, 2007
Mama's Boy is the ultimate, definitive, supremo bad movie, the universal black hole of suckage bad movie, the celluloid anti-Christ bad movie of bad movies -- not to put too fine a point on it or anything.December 14, 2007
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.June 09, 2008
I expected to laugh a lot harder and more frequently. Mama's Boy isn't what I'd call a terrible movie. Instead, it's a movie that assembles a lot of interesting elements that never gel.