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  • 2009
  • Not Rated
  • Barn Door Pictures
  • 1 h 31 m
  • 2009
  • Not Rated
  • Barn Door Pictures
  • 1 h 31 m

Summary When Zak and his girlfriend Delphina visit his estranged father in the Catskills, they find him suffering from dementia and inadvertently uncover a dark family secret from WWII: an impossible sacrifice Zak's grandfather made to join Rudolph Kasztner's controversial freedom train out of Hungary. (Barn Door Pictures)

Directed By: Jeremy Davidson

Written By: Jeremy Davidson

  • 2009
  • Not Rated
  • Barn Door Pictures
  • 1 h 31 m
  • 2009
  • Not Rated
  • Barn Door Pictures
  • 1 h 31 m

Tickling Leo

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary When Zak and his girlfriend Delphina visit his estranged father in the Catskills, they find him suffering from dementia and inadvertently uncover a dark family secret from WWII: an impossible sacrifice Zak's grandfather made to join Rudolph Kasztner's controversial freedom train out of Hungary. (Barn Door Pictures)

Directed By: Jeremy Davidson

Written By: Jeremy Davidson

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
49
33% Positive
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50% Mixed
3 Reviews
17% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
49
33% Positive
2 Reviews
50% Mixed
3 Reviews
17% Negative
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Davidson weaves deeper questions of who a Jew is into this powerful tale of a clan shredded by the rage and hatred passed down through three generations.
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70
Leo should satisfy serious older filmgoers, even if it suffers from wobbly storytelling.
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60
Flimsy dialogue and fickle characters undercut the weighty historical demons in this fractured family portrait of three generations of men dealing with their emotional scars.
By S. James Snyder FULL REVIEW
50
The film’s rich performances, in which every shade of every character’s emotions registers, can go only so far to camouflage the glaring lapses in a drama that often confuses hints and allusions with coherent storytelling.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
50
A radiant perf by Annie Parisse and a virtuoso turn by Eli Wallach are insufficient to lift this male intergenerational angst-fest out of the ghetto.
By Ronnie Scheib FULL REVIEW
20
Throughout, Davidson's intentions are honest but become lost in a haze of overly familiar story beats.
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Barn Door Pictures, Highbrow Entertainment
Release Date Sep 4, 2009
Duration 1 h 31 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=103765575430
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Awards

Stony Brook Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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