John C. Reilly stars as John in
this film alongside his new love Molly’s overweight son Cyrus played by Jonah
Hill. John has been divorced for 7 years and his ex-wife Jamie (Catherine
Keener) helps him to find a new life and
love interest of his own as she is about to get remarried. John goes to a
30-somethings ‘media-types’ party with his ex-wife and her new fiancé. John and
Jamie are still friends so she helps him. John meets Molly played by Marisa
Tomei at the party. They fall in love and start a relationship, but a spanner
is thrown in the works when John finds out she has a 21 year old son. The whole
film is an “I slept with your mum” joke and Cyrus does everything he can to
stop John being with him mum with many Freudian undertones. He does not
appreciate no longer being the man of the house and this is evident throughout
the film with his dark and manipulative approach to his mother’s relationship.
John does not appreciate this and an all-out war is broken out between them. It
is funny to watch and worth seeing.
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