Cyrus is a 2010 romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Jay and Mark Duplass and distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures.

Its story follows John, a recent divorcée who meets and instantly falls for a woman named Molly.

The two start a relationship but John soon comes to find out that Molly's overprotective son, Cyrus, does not want to share his mother with anyone else.

At a party the next night, John gets more and more drunk until he ends up urinating in the bushes, where Molly strikes up a conversation.

As they begin to have sex for the first time in her house, Cyrus screams in his room, and Molly runs to comfort him.

He encounters Cyrus holding a large kitchen knife, allegedly making a snack.

When she presses Cyrus for details, he explodes in a tantrum and storms off, checking through the window to make sure that she is upset.

At the wedding, however, Cyrus is hurt when he sees how the event stirs romantic feelings between John and his mother.

The website's critical consensus is: "While it may strike some viewers as slight, Cyrus is a successful hybrid of mainstream production values and the mumblecore ideals of directors Jay and Mark Duplass.”[7] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 74 out of 100, based on 38 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

[8] Critics reacting negatively include Manohla Dargis of The New York Times, who criticized the Duplass brothers for displaying an "almost aggressive lack of ambition",[9] and Damien Magee of 702 ABC Sydney, who identified Cyrus as "the sort of film that many people, including a number of well-respected critics, have started to confuse with good cinema" going on to call it "a checklist of indie-chic clichés", and concluding with the suggestion "If you're really stuck for something to see, stick this on the maybe pile, otherwise marked Juno.