Tickling Leo

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Tickling Leo

Released Sep 4, 2009

1h 31m

Drama

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A survivor of the Kasztner Train struggles with his family's choices during the event.

Andrew Schenker

Slant Magazine

The Holocaust new wave continues with Tickling Leo, this time drawing on a little-known historical footnote as the haunted backdrop for an otherwise tepid contemporary drama.

Rated: 1.5/4

Feb 28, 2015

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S. James Snyder

Time Out

Rated: 3/5

Nov 17, 2011

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Gary Goldstein

Los Angeles Times

Although strongly acted and deeply felt, writer-director Jeremy Davidson's arcanely titled Tickling Leo is too theatrically conceived and diffusely told to satisfy its lofty aspirations.

Rated: 2/5

Oct 16, 2009

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Paul Brenner

Filmcritic.com

less an integrated film project than a collection of actors' audition tapes, high energy exercises that look impressive individually but compiled together in a film are nothing short of ridiculous.

Rated: 1.5/5

Sep 3, 2009

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Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

Ostensibly about Holocaust guilt, writer/director Jeremy Davidson's poorly scripted, filmed, and executed drama plays out like an unfinished low budget soap opera.

Rated: D-

Sep 2, 2009

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Doris Toumarkine

Film Journal International

Impressive production and performances outweigh ambiguities in this low-budget Holocaust-themed contemporary drama...

Sep 2, 2009

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Begins With A Fully-Starkers Naked Man In His 80s & Attempts To Go On Shocking You With His Secrets. Some Of The Drama Is Riveting..Other Bits Boring & A Ramshackle Postscript To Jewish Wartime Pathos..Wasn't Sure How To Connect With It.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/21/23

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An intelligent film with powerful performances by all involved about 3 generations of Jewish men and family secrets that keep them all apart when they perhaps each need one another more than ever. When a young man travels from NYC to the Catskills with his pregnant girlfriend they find his father there alone and stuggling between dementia and real life issues. The grandfather played by Eli Wallach who is well in his 90s now is a real pleasure to watch as he is talanted & gifted of an actor as he ever was. A fine independent film I'd highly recommend.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/12/23

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Synopsis

A survivor of the Kasztner Train struggles with his family's choices during the event.

Director: Jeremy Davidson
Producer: Jeremy Davidson, Mary Stuart Masterson, Peter Masterson, Paul Schnee
Screenwriter: Jeremy Davidson
Distributor: Barn Door Pictures
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 4, 2009, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 3, 2019
Runtime: 1h 31m