Brooks, whose gentle and witty observations on life and people have given us some pretty decent movies in the past ("Defending Your Life", "Lost in America", etc.) here falls flat. This totally unbelievable premise - a twice-divorced man moving back in with his mother to get at the "Freudian root" of his problems - is not made any more credible by the lame script that follows. One keeps waiting expectantly for humor in the interplay between John and his mother; however, nothing funny arises from the tediously lame dialogue of their scenes together. None of the characters is engaging or funny. Mom is critical, insensitive, and ditzy; John is whiny and neurotic. Their unlikability, however, is eclipsed by John's brother (Rob Morrow), whose every scene raises 'obnoxiously annoying' to an art form. There is nothing funny in this movie; skip it.