Bad Shabbos

The Edward S. Finkelstein Harrisburg Jewish Film Festival 

Season Finale Mini Fest

USA, 2024/Comedy, 84 minutes/English/Written by Zack Weiner and Daniel Robbins/ Directed by Daniel Robbins

Winner of the Audience Award at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, Bad Shabbos is the story of a newly engaged couple, David and Meg, and the Shabbos dinner where her midwestern, Catholic parents are set to meet his New York, Jewish ones for the first time.  What can we say?  It all goes terribly wrong.  A snappy, hilarious ensemble treat, starring Kyra Sedgwick as the controlling matriarch, David Paymer as the (at all costs) family protector, Cliff “Method Man” Smith as the resourceful building doorman, and an Upper West Side apartment full of other familiar faces.