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Genres:
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Comedy
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Director:
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Scott Marshall
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Actors:
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Daryl Sabara,
Jami Gertz,
Brittany Robertson,
Miranda Cosgrove,
Carter Jenkins,
Tom Hines,
DJ Quik,
Sky Bear Aguilar,
Jeremy Piven,
Cheryl Hines,
Marc John Jefferies,
Sandra Taylor,
Larry Miller,
Doris Roberts,
Garry Marshall
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Duration:
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81 min.
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Rating:
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(5.4/10)75
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Plot Summary:
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All hilarity breaks let go in this heartwarming coming-of-age comedy when three generations strike in a crazy brood reunion... and then begin to see that they are much more resembling than they'd originally kind-heartedness!
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Tags:
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Crap
I kept forwarding bits of it - it was that bad. And what's going on with Darryl Hannah's face?
Keeping Up with the Steins
Claudia PuigBar mitzvahs - like birthday parties and weddings - have evolved into increasingly elaborate and extravagant affairs. Keeping Up with the Steins does a clever job of lampooning that ridiculous excess.
The comedy is at its best when mocking the sense of competition over these religious rites of passage. But some characterizations verge on stereotypes.
Richard Benjamin plays a remote rabbi and author of The Passion of the Jews. (He urges the kids in Hebrew class to tune in Bill O'Reilly to see him tout his book.)
The bar mitzvah of Benjamin Fiedler (Spy Kids' Daryl Sabara) is the focus here, but there's a subplot on a rift between Benjamin's ambitious agent dad (Jeremy Piven) and free-spirited grandfather (filmmaker Garry Marshall).
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