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  • Summary: An uptight lawyer, Lenny Rubins, has to put his dream retirement on hold when his ailing mother emotionally blackmails him into reuniting his estranged children for a holiday gathering. (Monterey Media)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 7
  2. Negative: 3 out of 7
  1. Reviewed by: Neil Genzlinger
    Mar 16, 2012
    40
    It's the kind of stuff an amateur screenwriter reaches for when he has nothing original to say, because he's seen it work in other movies. It sure doesn't work here.
  2. Reviewed by: Kerry Lengel
    Apr 5, 2012
    40
    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.
  3. Reviewed by: Eric Hynes
    Mar 13, 2012
    40
    What happens when you put a rabbi, a Buddhist monk, a high-strung capitalist, and a lesbian humanitarian together in the same room? Not comedy, it turns out.
  4. Reviewed by: Chuck Bowen
    Mar 11, 2012
    38
    Yoav Factor can't decide whether he wants to play his broad scenario as an exaggerated farce or as a heartwarming testament to blood ties.

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