Bad Shabbos

About This Film

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Festival Year: 2025
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Run Time: 84 Minutes
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Film Type: Feature
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Animated: No
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Countr(ies): USA
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Language: English
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English Subtitles: No
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Captions: Closed

Film Overview

Prepare for Shabbat shenanigans in this laugh-out-loud comedy from writer/director Daniel Robbins (“Citizen Weiner”), as a Jewish-Catholic couple attempt to introduce their parents to each other, only for a gruesome accident to gum up the works. Winner of the Tribeca 2024 Best Narrative Feature Audience Award.When two couples—Abby and Benjamin, and David and Meg (freshly converted to Judaism)—gather for a traditional Shabbat dinner, things spiral faster than you can say “hamotzi” when an accidental death (or…murder?) derails the evening entirely, and Meg’s devoutly Catholic parents are due any moment to meet David’s very Jewish family. Before you know it, Shabbat becomes a comedy of biblical proportions.

Film Contact: Menemsha Films

Cast & Crew

Directed By

Daniel Robbins

Produced By

Adam Mitchell

Screenwriting

Zack Weiner, Daniel Robbins

Cinematographers

Matt Clegg

Editors

Kait Plum

Principal Cast

Kyra Sedgwick, Cliff “Method Man” Smith, Jon Bass, Milana Vayntrub, David