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
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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 Full Review |
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2/4 |
A film that tries too hard and wastes a cast of skilled veterans and talented newcomers. Full Review |
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 5/5 |
Offbeat, nostalgic, wonderful. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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3/4 |
It’s labeled a 'true-ish story', and the results are cheeky fun. Full Review |
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A- |
Sixty Six is also about accepting parents with all their frailties, coming to terms with the unfairness of life, and finding a way to switch the focus to the wonders we do have to celebrate. Full Review |
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3/4 |
The story line sounds plain and simple, but the movie is enlightened by Bernie's impassioned narration and by a gallery of small comic details. Full Review |
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Weiland has given us something we can cheer and feel good about. Full Review |
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3/4 |
[Director] Weiland pours so much heart into his autobiographically 'true-ish' story that accessibility is a nonissue. Full Review |
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...the sort of Jewish film that the whole family can enjoy without feeling they're fulfilling an obligation to see it. Full Review |
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B |
...a charming coming-of-age period piece about the trials and tribulations one young boy must face in his quest to become a man. Full Review |
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B |
Weiland's occasional heavy-handedness is more than redeemed by the lightness of his cast. Full Review |
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It does cast Helena Bonham Carter against type as a devoted mother and housewife, and, for soccer nuts, integrate pristine footage from the '66 Cup. Full Review |
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You don’t have to be Jewish to appreciate its uncondescending fondness for the claustrophobic warmth of family life among working-class people apprehensively inching their way toward upward mobility. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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I think it’s a very heartfelt story, but we get the same thing over and over again. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Sixty Six's loving portrayal of the ups & downs of a Jewish family in London charmingly entices the viewer to find themselves within its four-eyed, adorably geeky hero. Full Review |
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D |
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 Full Review |
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2/4 |
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. Full Review |
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