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05/06/06
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
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05/06/06
If this is someone's idea of dinner and a movie, you might as well skip the movie.
04/07/06
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
Not recomended for the Goyim.
04/11/06
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
Cliches and loud stereotypes as fresh as year-old matzoh infest When Do We Eat?, a farce about a wildly dysfunctional Los Angeles family's disastrous Passover Seder.
04/07/06
[Director] Litvak crams so many earth-shattering revelations and long-buried resentments into 93 minutes that the film feels as if it's struggling to provide something recognizable to every potential ticket buyer.
04/07/06
But even the film's seeming singularity proves deceptive once it becomes apparent that When Do We Eat? is less a Passover movie than a Thanksgiving or Christmas movie dolled up in Jewish drag.
04/20/06
In this distasteful film from Salvador Litvak, a Jewish family tries to race through a Seder, but drug use, possible incest and some jokes at the expense of the autistic slow them down.
04/07/06
Top CriticMaking The Family Stone's shenanigans and schmaltz seem downright sophisticated by comparison, Salvador Litvak's Passover-themed film gives Jews an insufferable holiday family comedy to call their own.
03/09/06
Another entry in indiedom's contest to create the most dysfunctional family.
04/17/06
Top CriticIt borders on painful to see this cast go through the motions of this uninspired script.
04/20/06
Oh, what a distasteful film.
04/24/06
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