OPening night: Saturday, November 8 @ 6:30pm
JCC Columbus | 1125 College Ave Columbus, OH 43209
Tickets: $30
Q&A with screenwriter Zach Weiner and Adam Nate Levine. Reception to follow.
Directed by Daniel Robbins, Screenwriters: Zach Weiner/Daniel Robbins, USA, 84 min, 2024
Winner of the top audience prize at the Tribeca Film Festival, this darkly hilarious, highly entertaining, one-night-in-New-York story turns a Shabbat family dinner into a chaotic whirlwind they will never forget. When two couples, Abby and Benjamin, and David and recently-converted-to-Judaism Meg, gather for what should be a typical Shabbat family dinner, an unexpected shadow looms over their night—an accidental death (or is it murder?) threatens to unravel the whole evening. As the night spirals out of control, the arrival of Meg’s Catholic parents from Wisconsin, meeting their future in-laws for the first time, only adds to the hilarious mayhem that ensues. Scrambling to maintain a façade of normalcy for their Midwestern guests, the family finds themselves creatively bending traditions—and even inventing a few new ones out of sheer desperation!
Starring Kyra Sedgwick, David Paymer, Method Man and more familiar faces. The film’s rapid-fire dialogue, twisty script, sharp humor and warm heart, brilliantly captures the hilarity and madness of one family’s unique Shabbat.
Zack Weiner is a screenwriter and actor living on the Upper West Side. He ran for UWS city council in 2021. His mother hosts shabbos dinner every Friday and you’re all invited.
Adam Nate Levine is a NYC-based comedian by way of Chicago and Ohio. Now performing nightly in New York City, he’s a regular at Greenwich Village Comedy Club, New York Comedy Club, and The Laugh Tour.