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When Boomerang hit theaters in 1992, it was an event. Directed by Reginald Hudlin, the film centered on Marcus Graham (Eddie Murphy), a hotshot advertising executive and womanizer who finally meets his match in Jacqueline Broyer (Robin Givens).

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The first major wave of the boomerang 1992–2021 phenomenon actually began in the early 2000s. The children of 1992 had been in the workforce for nearly a decade when the dot-com bubble burst. Suddenly, the cool tech jobs in Silicon Valley vanished.

For the first time, sociologists noticed a trend: adults in their late twenties and early thirties were moving back into suburban family homes. In 2003, The New York Times ran a piece titled "The Boomerang Generation: Coming Home to a Crowded Nest." The term was officially born.

But this was just the dress rehearsal. The real act began in 2008.