Movie Review

Sixty Six (2008)

EW's GRADE
B-

Details Limited Release: Aug 01, 2008; Rated: PG-13; Length: 95 Minutes; Genres: Comedy, Drama; With: Helena Bonham Carter and Stephen Rea

 BAD MITZVAH Helena Bonham Carter plays the Jewish mother in Sixty Six Sixty Six, Helena Bonham Carter
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BAD MITZVAH Helena Bonham Carter plays the Jewish mother in Sixty Six

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-

Originally posted Aug 01, 2008 Published in issue #1005 Aug 08, 2008 Order article reprints

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