Being called a mooch isn’t usually the type of insult one spends a decade transforming into a feature film, but Jeff Ryan has never seemed particularly interested in taking the expected route. Following YouthMin: A Mockumentary and the horror-comedy Mean Spirited, Ryan once again writes, directs and stars in Mooch (read our full review here),…
There’s a certain honesty in opening your movie with the declaration that it is “based on a pathetic true story.” It’s an immediate indication of the wavelength Jeff Ryan is operating on with Mooch, a scrappy comedy noir that understands there are few things funnier – or, occasionally, sadder – than watching a grown man…
