Bad Shabbos (2024)
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- Synopsis:
- David (Jon Bass) and his fiancée Meg (Meghan Leathers) are about to have their parents meet for the first time over a Shabbat dinner on New York’s Upper West Side when an accidental death (or murder?) gets in the way. With Meg's Catholic parents due any moment, this family dinner soon spirals into a hilarious disaster.
- Actors:
- Milana Vayntrub, Ashley Zukerman, Kyra Sedgwick, Method Man, David Paymer, John Bedford Lloyd, Josh Mostel, Meghan Leathers, Jon Bass, Catherine Curtin, S. Edward Singer, Theo Taplitz, Alok Tewari, Catherine Wolf, Robert McKay, Martha Epstein, Gary Greengrass
- Directors:
- Daniel Robbins
- Producers:
- Adam Mitchell
- Writers:
- Daniel Robbins, Zack Weiner
- Aka:
- Плохой шаббат
- Genres:
- Children & Family, Comedy
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Reviews (1) of Bad Shabbos
Messy, Often Funny, - Bad Shabbos review by griggs
Only free on a Friday, and the cinema had, obviously, taken the night off too. A film about Shabbat, benched by Shabbat. Pleased with that one for longer than I should've been.
The film itself felt weirdly familiar, and it took me a while to work out why: it's the classic dinner-party setup where, instead of calling an ambulance, everyone quietly agrees to cover it up. This time it's an interfaith couple's first family dinner — his parents devoutly Jewish, her parents Catholic — and someone dies before it's even started. What follows is one long, chaotic cover-up. Kyra Sedgwick is clearly enjoying herself as the mother, handing out compliments with a hidden blade in each one. Method Man plays the building's doorman, gets dragged into the mess, and treats the whole thing like just another shift. He's the best part of the film, by some distance.
The trouble is it never leaves the apartment, and you feel it. Eighty-four minutes helps.
Messy, often funny, a bit too familiar to stick.