CyrusRated 14 Accompaniment (Coarse Language) ~ Runs 92 minutes
Dir.: Jay Duplass/Mark Duplass, US, 2010
Marisa Tomei, Jonah Hill, John C. Reilly, Catherine Keener
“Middle-aged romance can be a dicey prospect. And it gets more complicated when children are in the picture. But it gets more complex still if the ‘child’ is actually 21, and creepily meddlesome... What makes this dark comedy work so well is the way in which directors Jay and Mark Duplass build an original story on a broad, even farcical, foundation and leaven it with nuance. It's an edgy, engrossing comedy... Amid the laughs, emotional truths loom large for each of its rather odd characters. The story centers on John, a sad sack whose ex-wife, Jamie, is soon to be remarried. John's life is a cringe-fest until he meets the warmhearted Molly.... Reilly and Tomei have credible chemistry, convincing us that these two damaged adults may actually have found their soul mates. But their romance runs into a rather sizable snag in the form of Molly's maladjusted son, Cyrus. Molly and Cyrus have an unusually close bond that gives new meaning to the term ‘mollycoddled.’ A rivalry between Cyrus and John is hilarious... Hill plays a very different character from his usual harmless geeks in Get Him to the Greek or Superbad. He nails Cyrus' sense of menace laced with brattiness, making this his best and most complex performance... The Duplass brothers fuse comedy, tragedy and discomfort... Above all, it deftly captures the ambiguity and absurdity of human relationships... Cyrus is an off-kilter charmer.” - Claudia Puig, The Washington Post. “Painfully funny farce... one of the best and most surprising movies of the year.” - Georgia Straight
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