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Reuniting the Rubins

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An uptight Jewish lawyer (Timothy Spall) tries to please his mother by reuniting his estranged children for a holiday celebration.
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Kerry Lengel Arizona Republic 04/05/2012
2/5
"Reuniting the Rubins" may walk like a comedy and quack like a comedy, but despite the absurd extremes to which it takes the squabbling-family formula, it inspires nary a chuckle. Go to Full Review
Dennis Harvey Variety 03/23/2012
Theoretical laughter, tears and maudlin contrivance ensue. Go to Full Review
Gary Goldstein Los Angeles Times 03/22/2012
A frantic, badly constructed, slightly offensive muddle that doesn't so much end as run out of things on a checklist. Go to Full Review
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09/20/2020 Love Timothy Spall, but this script falls short in any category. It shows such a terrible arguing bunch that it ends up being anti semitic. There is a greedy man, a fanatic rabbi, a guru, and a liberal grant seeker for Black Africans. They fight over everything. It is not funny at all. The grandson is suffering from neglect. The grandmother dies after witnessning their selfish fights. The beautiful house where they grew up has gone to rack and ruin. See more 06/05/2017 This really wasn't bad... a little contrived by not bad. See more 01/11/2014 Nice to see Honor Blackman in a large role but this was a bit drab. Spall as usual was great but his kids were all either too odd or quite franly nasty and self centred. Its was a slow start but finally got somewhere half way through See more 01/28/2013 It's a quirky and unrealistic collection of characters in a feuding Jewish family, if you can get over that the story of their long-suffering father bringing them together is watchable. See more 08/10/2012 "A movie full of odd-ball characters who happen to be apart of a dysfunctional family. My favorite kind of families. But this one wasn't as out there or nearly as dramatic for my taste. I like these types of films to be more darker. But it was OK. Entertaining. I thought most of the acting was good. Some a little bit over the top. But the interesting part was how different Lenny's children turned out. One a budah, another a Rabbi, one a complete ass, and the other off changing the world. It was an odd mixture, but an interesting one none the less. Not something I would watch again, but nothing I regret seeing either." See more 03/23/2012 I would give it an excellent rating. It was very relateable to me. The acting was totally convincing! See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis An uptight Jewish lawyer (Timothy Spall) tries to please his mother by reuniting his estranged children for a holiday celebration.
Director
Yoav Factor
Producer
Yoav Factor, Jonathan Weissler
Screenwriter
Yoav Factor
Distributor
Monterey Media
Production Co
Factor Films
Rating
PG (Language|Thematic Elements)
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 16, 2012, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 12, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$12.7K
Runtime
1h 39m
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