- Release Date: 2005
- Runtime: 86 min
- Genre: Comedy
- Starring: Michael Lerner, Lesley Ann Warren, Jack Klugman, Meredith Scott Lynn ... see all
- Director: Salvador Litvak
- Plot: A family's Passover gets screwy after the patriarch unknowingly ingests a hit of Ecstasy.
User Reviews
A False Movie
Mar 28, 2008
bek414 - yahoo.com
Mar 28, 2008bek414 - yahoo.com
I think this a disgusting movie and it is mocking the different sects of Judaism. This movie is inapropriate and out of line; the people who made the movie probably did not even have a real seder before and is mocking... Full review
A Shame of a Movie
Mar 28, 2008
p99ete - yahoo.com
Mar 28, 2008p99ete - yahoo.com
Total nonsense. No redeeming qualities. Save your money and wait for the DVD next month, but I am not sure its even worth the rental fee.... Full review
Don't miss it!!!
Mar 28, 2008
mblazer4 - yahoo.com
Mar 28, 2008mblazer4 - yahoo.com
Few movies have spoken to the soul of Judaism as this one has. I laughed and cried, because we see ourselves and our families in the story. As an observant Jew, I can say that director Litvak has infused this movie... Full review
I loved this movie.
Mar 28, 2008
butchswif - yahoo.com
Mar 28, 2008butchswif - yahoo.com
I am not Jewish, yet I think this movie will appeal to anyone who comes from a family that has its issues. Which I think is most of us. The movie is entertaining and very insightful into the dynamics of a... Full review
Loved it, GREAT movie!
Mar 28, 2008
jimbo9070 - yahoo.com
Mar 28, 2008jimbo9070 - yahoo.com
Do not pay attention to the negative reviews of this movie. This is an excellent movie. It is funny, moving, and colorful. Ranks up there with Office Space (and more recently Napoleon Dynamite) for my personal favorite quirky comedies. But if... Full review
A complete waste
Mar 28, 2008
big_red555 - yahoo.com
Mar 28, 2008big_red555 - yahoo.com
I came in to the movie not expecting much: a nice passover dinner story or at least something remotely entertaining and I got a story of a completeley disfunctional family, worse off then any day time Heraldo show: unrealistic to the... Full review
Boring and cheap
Mar 28, 2008
blue_amiri - yahoo.com
Mar 28, 2008blue_amiri - yahoo.com
it is like all boring movies. you wont have a reason watching this film. all this movie is trying to say that it is pointless. you wont be satesfied. boring as dumb and pointless.... Full review
Pass Over This Movie
Mar 28, 2008
francesbilmes - yahoo.com
Mar 28, 2008francesbilmes - yahoo.com
I heard this was supposed to be a funny movie about a dysfunctional family celebrating Passover. It was not funny. I have a sense of humor but found nothing funny in this, and thought it very insulting to anyone who takes... Full review
tickles the funny bone
Mar 28, 2008
jdchickenking - yahoo.com
Mar 28, 2008jdchickenking - yahoo.com
A movie about a dysfunctional family that could not see eye to eye with each other. I liked it a lot, kept me laughing throughtout the movie. It is a definite must see and a definite must buy when its released... Full review
Seder?!
Mar 28, 2008
JordanTheGreat - yahoo.com
Mar 28, 2008JordanTheGreat - yahoo.com
I first saw this movie at the San Diego Film Festival in September of 2005, and I have been raving about it ever since. The first time I saw it, I thought it was one of the funniest things I had... Full review
Critics Reviews
| Aug 22, 2006DVD Talk
It's a fairly solid widescreen transfer for such a niche-market indie flick.....Co-writers Nina Davidovich and Salvador Litvak don't even bother with "plot," but at least we get a premise:.... ... Full Review
| Apr 21, 2006Boston Globe
has its own unique achievement.....The film turns that stale old Seder into warmed-up dinner theater..... ... Full Review
| Apr 07, 2006Box Office Prophets
It's right in ThinkFilm's wheelhouse....This film has so far played at several festivals, where it has largely been very well-received..... ... Full Review
| Apr 07, 2006Cinema Blend
s, caricatures, family resentment, and accusations, the entire film is an excruciatingly unfunny look into a Jewish household.
Making last years The Family Stone 's hijinks seem inspired, this Passover-themed film is as insufferable as the people in it.
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| Apr 06, 2006FilmJerk.com
if not a terribly successful film.....The charm of the film comes from the performances....Where "Eat" succeeds is found in its specificity as it tries to conjure up a distinctly Jewish experience for the viewer.....Eat" also gives middling talent like Shiri Appleby (as the sex therapist daughter) and Max Greenfield (as the fiercely religious son) an opportunity to reveal some layers their normal acting choices never allow.....there is a joy in seeing good actors like Michael Lerner and Lesley Ann Warren gi ... Full Review
News
When Do We Eat?
slantmagazine.com –
2006-03-09
y vey.Making The Family Stone 's shenanigans and schmaltz seem downright sophisticated by comparison, Salvador Litvak's Passover-themed When Do We Eat?gives Jews an insufferable holiday family comedy to call their own. ... Full Article
By Joe Williams POST-DISPATCH FILM CRITIC 04/21/2006 We're overdue for a good comedy about Passover - not just by a week but by a few decades. ... Full Article
By Frank Lovece For movie details, please click here . Michael Lerner is great. Meryl Streep-great? Perhaps not. But in When Do We Eat? this deservedly Oscar-nominated character actor (for 1991's Barton Fink , in which he played one in... ... Full Article

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