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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]My husband is Jewish and he rolled his eyes at the tremendous diversity in the Hebrew school scenes. While we understand and support representation in movies, it wasn’t realistic and to a certain extent co-opts what is a singular Jewish experience. [/b](I’m Catholic so I don’t have a dog in this fight.)

He also pointed out that Jewish mothers spend a year+ planning the event (while the movie made it seem like they are thrown together, including shopping for the dress at the last minute).

I would have loved to see Sara Silverman or Seinfeld or another Jewish comedian make a cameo. Missed opportunity. [/quote]

This was my one critique of this movie. Trying to make the Hebrew School look like a mini UN really undermined the credibility of the movie. Maybe one character, like Kym Chang Cohen, would have been fine. But it felt too forced to have so many religious Jews with at least one parent of a different faith.

Ok, one more critique: The bat/bar mitzvah girl/boy would wear one conservative outfit to temple on Friday night, another conservative outfit to temple on Saturday morning, then their party outfit on Saturday night. Not one conservative, navy dress the whole time.

That said, the movie was great! Adam's daughters did a fabulous job. The younger one who played Stacy really did an amazing job. She's a very talented actress. The teen friendship drama with two of the girls becoming more popular and leaving behind their less cool friends was very realistic. It was great to see them all together again at the end.

I loved the redhead who bragged to KCC that she got her whole outfit plus a water bottle from Walmart for $12. Stacy and Lydia knew that wasn't "cool" but the less mature Nikki and Tara didn't catch it. Perfectly delivered scene![/quote]

I feel like for some reason movies like this elicit this extreme, undeserved evaluation. It's not some gritty doc. Yeah you wouldn't be buying your bat mitzvah dress the week before and choose one your daughter didn't feel good in. It was a vehicle to move the story along. You got to suspend some disbelief.[/quote]

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