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04/23/09
Sixty Six (2008)
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Reviews Counted:44
Fresh:28
Rotten:16
Average Rating:6/10
Consensus: Likable but overly sentimental, Sixty Six has snatches of sharp dialogue but is ultimately too predicable.
Theatrical Release:Aug 1, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: Bernie Rubens (Gregg Sulkin) is a nerdy 12-year-old preparing for his Bar Mitzvah, which he wants to be a huge, ornate affair. However, his parents, Manny (Eddie Marsan) and Esther (Helena Bonham... [More]
Starring: Helena Bonham-Carter, Eddie Marsan, Greg Sulkin, Stephen Rea
Director: Paul Weiland
Reviews for Sixty Six
Director Paul Weiland ("Made of Honor") co-wrote the tone-deaf screenplay for this cinematic abortion that features the ever-lousy Stephen Rea adding his specific brand of stench to a pasted-together movie that is predictable and boring as it is depressin
08/02/08
Weiland’s decision to enliven a predictable film à clef with Tim Burton–esque flair makes for a promising start, at least until the absurdo-fantastic gestures slip into gratuitousness.
07/31/08
For anyone who preferred Oliver Bean to Malcolm in the Middle.
07/27/08
A film that tries too hard and wastes a cast of skilled veterans and talented newcomers.
11/14/08
It’s designed to be crowd-pleasing and tug on hearts across the board, but there’s a manipulative quality that will put a ceiling on business.
08/01/08
Cleaves too closely to the pattern set out by more original films with similar subject matter. Its obvious distinctions of time and place come through in clever details, but these don't seem to serve Weiland's autobiography so much as situate it into a fa
08/08/09
A thick, gooey layer of voiceover narration from Bernie is just one of several tired devices that makes pic feel hackneyed, despite some choice cuts of dialogue.
12/30/06
The direction of this autobiographical tale by Paul Weiland (whose lengthy rap sheet runs all the way from Leonard Part 6 to Made of Honor) is less than subtle.
08/01/08
Top CriticIt's cliched and gooey, but because it's English, and has Helena Bonham Carter in a rare non-gothy role, viewers may be fooled into thinking it's quirky. No.
06/27/08
Though inspired by Weiland's own childhood, the film's plot sticks close to the underdog's coming-of-age formula and is marred by young Bernie's gratingly self-pitying voice-over.
08/01/08
Sixty Six may find a niche audience, but instead of depicting a boy's first steps toward manhood -- ceremony aside -- it turns into an uninvolving portrait of self-absorption.
08/06/08
Given the personal nature of the material, though, it's a shame Weiland resorts to the kind of coarse ethnic caricatures one hoped had died with Mike and Bernie Winters.
12/30/06
Eddie Marsan is too convincingly sad and pathetic to raise laughs.
12/30/06
I think it’s a very heartfelt story, but we get the same thing over and over again.
08/04/08
Top CriticThere is an attempt at a feelgood ending, but I wasn't convinced.
03/16/07
Despite the whimsical voice-over and gloopy, sentimental tone, it's a hard film to dislike.
01/27/07
Like Running with Scissors or an exceptionally cruel episode of The Wonder Years, Paul Weiland's whimsical and eye-poppingly bright comedy is shot through with cringe-inducing misery.
07/31/08
Since Mr. Weiland himself had grown up in a Jewish section of North London, he was able to include many details of his own childhood.
10/23/08
Top Critic...the sort of Jewish film that the whole family can enjoy without feeling they're fulfilling an obligation to see it.
08/22/08
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