Keeping Up with the Steins
| Keeping Up with the Steins | |
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Theatrical release poster
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| Directed by | Scott Marshall |
| Produced by | A.D. Oppenheim |
| Written by | Mark Zakarin |
| Starring |
Daryl Sabara Jami Gertz Jeremy Piven Larry Miller Garry Marshall Daryl Hannah Sandra Taylor Carter Jenkins Miranda Cosgrove |
| Music by | John Debney |
| Cinematography | Charles Minsky |
| Edited by | Tara Timpone |
| Distributed by | Miramax Films |
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Release date
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May 12, 2006 |
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Running time
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99 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English Hebrew |
| Budget | $5 million |
| Box office | $4,409,373 |
Keeping Up with the Steins is a 2006 comedy film directed by Scott Marshall, and starring Garry Marshall, Jeremy Piven, Jami Gertz and Daryl Hannah. The film is also a commentary on how too many Jewish families see a bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah not as a coming of age for their son or daughter, but rather as an excuse to throw outrageously lavish parties.
Benjamin Fiedler (Daryl Sabara) is the 13-year-old son of Jewish couple Adam and Joanne Fiedler (Jeremy Piven and Jami Gertz). After attending the elaborate bar mitzvah party for the son of Arnie Stein (Larry Miller) - which was done on a cruise ship, with a Titanic theme - Benjamin's parents decide to go all out for his bar mitzvah. The plan is to rent Dodger Stadium for the bar mitzvah party, complete with movie stars and everything. Adam even kombooks Neil Diamond to sing the National Anthem. However, Benjamin does not want to go through with it, as he does not even understand the words of the haftorah he has to read as part of his bar mitzvah rite. To try to stall the planning, he secretly invites his grandfather Irwin (Garry Marshall), who is now living on an Indian reservation with a New Age woman named Sacred Feather (Daryl Hannah). When Benjamin's grandfather arrives, it puts a kink in the planning - as Irwin had a falling out with his son Adam, both for having left Adam when he was a teenager, and for Adam's own humiliating bar mitzvah. Irwin must then pull off somehow reconciling with his son while helping his grandson deal with the question of what it means to be a "man."
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