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BAD MITZVAH Helena Bonham Carter plays the Jewish mother in Sixty Six
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Limited Release: Aug 01, 2008; Rated: PG-13; Length: 95 Minutes; Genres: Comedy, Drama; With: Helena Bonham Carter and Stephen Rea
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By Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW

If you were an asthmatic Jewish kid in North London and your bar mitzvah was scheduled for the day England played West Germany in the World Cup final in 1966, you might grow up believing you have a comic, if exceedingly slender, autobiographical movie like Sixty Six in you too. But unless you're a well-connected ad director like Paul Weiland with friends like Richard Curtis to co-write the treatment, it's unlikely you'd get Helena Bonham Carter to play your Jewish mother, or Stephen Rea as your soulful asthma doctor. B-


Posted Aug 01, 2008
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