Three generations, one cramped apartment, infinite passive-aggressive comments. The original dysfunctional family dinner.
Family secrets are revealed as three generations of a middle-class New York Jewish family come together in this story of good relations and bad relations.
Acting
Dick Shawn's manic desperation as the failed patriarch.
Writing
Dialogue that cuts like decades of repressed grievances.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Linda Feferman never made another feature; this was her thesis film that somehow got theatrical release.
A rare 1970s film directed by a woman, capturing a very specific Ashkenazi Jewish milieu that was rapidly disappearing.
US
