Keeping Up with the Steins

2006
12
1h 30m

IMDb RATING

5.4/10

3.3K

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Jami Gertz, Jeremy Piven, and Larry Miller in Keeping Up with the Steins (2006)

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A 13-year-old boy uses his upcoming bar mitzvah to reconcile the strained relationship between his father and grandfather.A 13-year-old boy uses his upcoming bar mitzvah to reconcile the strained relationship between his father and grandfather.A 13-year-old boy uses his upcoming bar mitzvah to reconcile the strained relationship between his father and grandfather.

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IMDb RATING

5.4/10

3.3K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 2 nominations total

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Keeping Up With The Steins

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Trivia
While shooting this movie, Daryl Sabara was also studying for his own Bar Mitzvah. The Haftorah portion that his character chants in the movie was Sabara's actual Bar Mitzvah portion.

Goofs
When Benjamin is reading his Haftorah at his Bar Mitzvah, he fails to say the required prayer that precedes it. Instead, he goes right into the Haftorah portion itself.

Quotes
Rose Fiedler: Shamu is Jewish?

Crazy credits
In the first set of end credits, Mark John Jefferies is listed as a cast member, but in the final comprehensive set, he is listed as Marc John Jeffries.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan/Flushed Away/Unknown/Volver/Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

Soundtracks
Freilach
Traditional
Performed and Arranged by Gregori Schecter's Klezmer Festival Band
Courtesy of Opus 1 Music Library
Under license from ARC Music

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Featured review

5/10

wacky dysfunctional family

Adam (Jeremy Piven) and Joanne Fiedler (Jami Gertz) have their son Benjamin (Daryl Sabara)'s bar mitzvah coming up. They attend Adam's former best friend and Hollywood agent partner Arnie Stein (Larry Miller)'s son Zachary's grand bar mitzvah. It's Brentwood and the Fiedlers decide to top it. Casey Nudelman (Cheryl Hines) is the planner. Benjamin has a crush on Ashley Grunwald and Karen Sussman is his know-it-all classmate. Rose (Doris Roberts) is his grandmother. He doesn't like his parents' outlandish plans and invites his wacky estranged grandfather Irwin (Garry Marshall) who is living with Sacred Feather (Daryl Hannah) on an Indian reservation.

This dysfunctional family is wacky. Their problems are not that relatable or actually that funny. It's broadly sit-comish. For example, it isn't enough for Irwin and Sacred Feather to be hippies but they have to live on an Indian reservation. Everybody has to be wacky on the next level. I would also like to like Daryl Sabara more but he doesn't have quite the right adorable loveability. There is a nice message in the end but I would have preferred better laughs.