Bad Shabbos
Bad Shabbos
Set in the well-heeled part of New York’s Upper West Side Jewish community, Tribeca Film Festival’s audience award-winner is an entertaining, fast-paced comedy about a Sabbath dinner gone terribly awry. It offers a tender look at several generations of modern Jews trying to balance the polarities of secular and religious lives along with the dilemma of a dead body in the bathroom. Director Daniel Robbins and his longtime co-writer Zack Weiner up the comedy ante by stirring in several dysfunctional family dramas, an inter-faith culture clash and an intrepid doorman. A strong ensemble cast nails the tasty dialogue and increasingly frantic action without falling into shtick. Grounded in its Upper West Side location, including a glimpse of Zabar’s and a stop at Barney Greengrass, the sturgeon king, the film benefits from Robbins and Weiner’s knowledge of and affection for their milieu. –AS
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The Main 2
Thursday, April 3rd
Edina Theatre