Keeping Up with the Steins
Director: Scott Marshall
Genre: Comedy, Parody, Indie, Coming of age, Domestic Comedy
Year: 2006
Country: United States of America
Language: Hebrew Language, English Language
Starring: Garry Marshall, Jeremy Piven, Jami Gertz, Daryl Hannah, Daryl Sabara, Cheryl Hines, Larry Miller, Carter Jenkins, Sandra Taylor, Marc John Jefferies, Adam Goldberg, Doris Roberts, Miranda Cosgrove, Brittany Robertson, Tom Hines
Keeping Up with the Steins is a 2006 comedy film directed by Scott Marshall, and starring Garry Marshall, Jeremy Piven, Jami Gertz and Daryl Hannah. The film is also a commentary on how too many Jewish families see a bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah not as a coming of age for their son or daughter, but rather as an excuse to throw outrageously lavish parties.
Benjamin Fiedler (Daryl Sabara) is the 13-year-old son of Adam and Joanne Fiedler (Jeremy Piven and Jami Gertz). After attending the elaborate bar mitzvah party for the son of Arnie Stein (Larry Miller) - which was done on a cruise ship, with a Titanic theme - Benjamin's parents decide to go all out for his bar mitzvah. The plan is to rent Dodger Stadium for the bar mitzvah party, complete with movie stars and everything. Adam even books Neil Diamond to sing the National Anthem. However, Benjamin does not want to go through with it, as he does not even understand the words of the haftorah he has to read as part of his bar mitzvah rite. To try to stall the planning, he secretly invites his grandfather Irwin (Garry Marshall), who is now living on an Indian reservation with a New Age woman named Sacred Feather (Daryl Hannah). When
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