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      Glow Ropes: The Rise and Fall of a Bar Mitzvah Emcee

      2005 1h 16m Comedy List
      Reviews 50% 250+ Ratings Audience Score Enthusiastic emcee Taylor James (Tim Peper) leaves behind his home state of New Jersey when party planner Vanessa Dupree (Judy Reyes) hires him to work the busier New York City bar mitzvah scene. Tutored by slick Manhattan emcee Sebastian (George Valencia), Taylor spices up his wardrobe and becomes a more clever showman. Soon, he's a bar mitzvah celebrity. But when he has a disastrous problem with his glow-in-the-dark props, his career heads in another direction. Read More Read Less

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      Scott Weinberg DVDTalk.com Technical assets are predictably sketchy, but the flick maintains a light tone and brisk pace, so that kinda evens things out. Rated: 3/5 Feb 12, 2007 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member The WORST movie EVER made. Iatching it, fought the urge to blow up my television, and my roomate who forced me to watch it. 90 minutes of my life I'll never get back. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Audience Member 4.5/10. I was generally a little bored with this film. I did not find the characters appealing and found it hard to stay interested in the film. It's occasionally amusing, but there is not enough good dialogue to make the film worth watching. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member While I give this movie props for some funny scenes, overall it was a disappointment. I was bored halfway through the film and most of the acting was too over-the-top to be believable. At first, the joke of people taking Bar Mitzvah parties too seriously was fun, but it got old very quickly. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member Extremely fun, original topic. Tim Peper (ahem, D-E '99) and Judy Reyes deliver excellent performances. This film speaks to anyone who has ever rolled their eyes at a bar mitzvah emcee or an overexcited bar mitzvah parent. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member This could have been really funny. There are tons of jokes to be made at the expense of people who are exclusively Bar Mitzvah DJs/Emcees. Skip this one. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member I had to stop it like almost halfway through, the previews made it seem funnier then it really was. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis Enthusiastic emcee Taylor James (Tim Peper) leaves behind his home state of New Jersey when party planner Vanessa Dupree (Judy Reyes) hires him to work the busier New York City bar mitzvah scene. Tutored by slick Manhattan emcee Sebastian (George Valencia), Taylor spices up his wardrobe and becomes a more clever showman. Soon, he's a bar mitzvah celebrity. But when he has a disastrous problem with his glow-in-the-dark props, his career heads in another direction.
      Director
      George Valencia, Edwin M. Figueroa
      Screenwriter
      George Valencia
      Genre
      Comedy
      Original Language
      English
      Runtime
      1h 16m