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Not Quite Olympians: Watch This Stirring Trailer For The Duplass Brothers' Do-Deca-Pentathlon

Published Tue, 15 May 2012 16:50:34 -0500

Last updated Tue, 15 May 2012 16:54:09 -0500

The Duplass brothers write brothers well.

Maybe that's one of the benefits of forming a family filmmaking duo. Last weekend I went to see Jay and Mark Duplass' Jeff, Who Lives At Home, having been a fan of the Duplasses' work ever since seeing This Is John, the short that made their name, during a mumblecore module at university. Jeff, Who Lives At Home is a bittersweet dramedy in which the sweet outweighs the bitter and you're never quite sure what's around the next corner. Or, as my friend put it, it is "Jason Segel showing you can get hella smoked in your mom's basement until you're thirty and still be somebody."

The Duplasses next offering is The Do-Deca-Pentathlon, a tale of two brothers who attempt to resolve a dispute about which of them won a sporting event they both competed in when they were young. The game wasn't basketball, or running, or snooker, or ping-pong. No, it was all of the above, plus 21 other stages of their own private Olympics, collectively dubbed the Do-Deca-Pentathlon. Brothers Jeremy (Mark Kelly) and Mark (Steve Zissis) aren't exactly in the best shape, but luckily the competition is simply to establish which one of them is the least spectacularly unfit.

The trailer is now available on Apple, and the film itself is set for release on July 6th 2012. As a result of the negative value of patriotism in my bones I'm planning something of a personal anti-Olympics crusade this summer and The Do-Deca-Pentathlon will most likely be incorporated.

Jeff, Who Lives At Home is currently showing at selected cinemas all over the country, and I'd highly recommend going to see it if you're not too busy getting smoked in your mum's basement.

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