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Bad Shabbos

Bad Shabbos

Dir. Daniel Robbins
84 min

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

Film Details

Program: SEE ALL MSPIFF44 FILMS
Release Year: 2024
Runtime: 84 min
Country/Region: USA
Language: English
Print Source: Menemsha Films
Tags: Comedy, Dramedy, Religion

Cast/Crew

Director: Daniel Robbins
Executive Producer: Derek Rubin, Irina Dashevsky, Riccardo Maddalosso, Ross Saxon
Producer: Adam Mitchell
Cinematographer: Matt Clegg
Screenwriter: Zack Weiner, Daniel Robbins
Editor: Kait Plum
Composer: Eli Keszler
Principal Cast: Kyra Sedgwick, Cliff Smith, Jon Bass, Milana Vayntrub, David Paymer, Meghan Leathers, Theo Taplitz, Ashley Zukerman

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Showtimes

The Main 2

Thursday, April 3rd

Edina Theatre

Monday, April 7th