6. Jeff, Who Lives At Home (2011)
Cool, funny guy Jason Segel is an overgrown man-child who still lives with his mother and has a grumpy older brother working in middle-management: surely we're in for some laughs here? Wrong. What the synopsis for this "comedy" should actually read like:
"Jason Segel plays an emotionally stunted weirdo who seems depressingly dissatisfied with life and is obsessed with signs and destiny, while his brother lives in the constant turmoil of an unhappy marriage and an average job, crumbling under the notion that his wife might be having an affair."
Meanwhile, the mother of the two is disappointed in both of them and in herself for not having made much of their lives. There. And it's easy to see what kind of movie you're watching pretty early on: as soon as you see Jason (Jeff) get punched and mugged by friends he made two seconds earlier on the bus, you realise you've been had. His ideals are shot, his wallet is gone and his face is badly bruised. Laughs all round? Uh, no. Jeff, Who Lives At Home isn't a bad film overall and the ending does have some resolution in it - the only problem is you'll have to swim through a flood of your own hopeless tears to get there.