A frail but very healthy looking Jewish Grandmother claims she
is dying and pressures her long-suffering son Lenny to cancel his dream Cruise and bring his disparate
grown up children who can’t abide each other together for one last Pesach in
her old home that she has blown her retirement fund to but back. One’s an
Hassidic Rabbi in Israel, one’s a Buddhist Monk in North London, another is a successful but dodgy businessman, and the only daughter is an environmentalist in
Africa: and all of them are sadly awkward stereotype characters that make for
too many wince-making moments.
And when they all arrive Granny does die, and Lenny is
left to deal with all the high dramas of the feuding siblings.
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| Ms Blackman as she was...... |
It is an excruciating embarrassingly unfunny British
comedy that cannot even be saved by the presence of the superb Timothy Spall as
Lenny. The Grandmother is played by
Honor Blackman a long way from being the leather clad Girl Friday in The Avengers
when I was a kid, and she seemed as miscast as a Jewish matriarch as Ms. Rosalind
Russell in her infamous attempt at pulling it off as Mrs. Jacoby in 'A Majority of One’ back in 1961.
It’s a total surprise to me how movies such as this
ever see the light of day, but you wont have to try too hard to miss it as I
would be very surprised if even the DVD surfaces in many places. I'm not going to even bother giving it a Star Rating.
