If this is someone's idea of dinner and a movie, you might as well skip the movie.
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04/07/06
When Do We Eat? (2006)
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Reviews Counted:37
Fresh:15
Rotten:22
Average Rating:4.9/10
Consensus: A crass, sitcom-ish holiday comedy, When Do We Eat? presents all the over-the-top dysfunctional family hijinks one would expect from the genre.
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: WHEN DO WE EAT? is the story of the world's fastest Passover seder that is anything but. On this night, secrets will be revealed, fantasies fulfilled, barriers brokendown and some food might be... [More]
Starring: Lesley Ann Warren, Jack Klugman, Michael Lerner, Adam Lamberg
Director: Salvador Litvak
Reviews for When Do We Eat?
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05/06/06
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05/06/06
...genuinely funny.
04/06/06
When Do We Eat? is about as funny, emotionally satisfying and even spiritually significant as this type of thing gets.
04/07/06
Eat soaks up the passions, disagreements, and love the Seder inspires, with the writers capturing the utter chaos of a full dinner table.
03/22/06
Its strong cast is loud and lively, and the bickering banter has snap and drive.
04/21/06
A self-consciously zany dysfunctional family comedy, When Do We Eat? strains so hard to be outrageous that it sacrifices characters for caricatures. They might have had something if they'd let everybody relax, be themselves and enjoy dinner.
04/07/06
Top CriticWhen Do We Eat? may strike a chord with those struggling to reconcile traditional faith and modernity, though few are likely to buy Ira’s post-high transformation into a loving husband and father.
04/06/06
A haunting and disturbing film.
05/04/06
When Do We Eat? isn't a great film or, necessarily, a particularly good one, but it's a worthy attempt at making an entertaining movie about faith.
04/07/06
Not recomended for the Goyim.
04/11/06
There's something very sweet and real beneath all the bluster, braggadocio, disgust and denial, pushing through as improbably and miraculously as Moses through the Red Sea.
02/06/07
Even Jewish audiences will be hard-pressed to find something to enjoy in this highly stagy, claustrophobic depiction of a Seder populated by one wacky family that seems to include every stereotype in the book.
04/20/06
Top CriticDespite the fact that the meal served is kosher, the recipe is so hammy that the movie proves pretty indigestible.
04/21/06
Litvak's movie almost immediately barges across the line separating the comically absurd from the outright obnoxious.
05/05/06
Unfunny Semitic caricatures. Even worse than 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.'
04/04/06
Manages to be broad, mawkish and mean-spirited all at once.
05/05/06
Watching this movie is kind of like being sprayed with emotional vomit.
04/20/06
even with all the strange impractical goings on, as with all in this recent string of popular entertainment culled from authentic orthodoxy, there are moments of sheer breathtaking joy that elevate the spirit of a Jew by speaking to their core.
08/16/06
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