ThinkFilm buys the rights to Eat
Filed under: Comedy, Independent, Deals, ThinkFilm, Distribution, Cinematical Indie
The North American rights to When
Do We Eat?, an independent film described by producers as "the first Passover comedy," have been
acquired by ThinkFilm. (Hell, I'd pick it up based on that tag-line alone.) The film, which stars Lesley Ann Warren, Michael
Lerner, and Jack Klugman, sounds pretty outrageous: after years of
fighting and conflict among extended family at Passover dinners, the son of Lerner's character decides that the solution
to all of their problems is to...drug his dad. Seriously. So he secretly feeds Pops ecstasy, which results, apparently,
in Lerner "fervently [trying] to reunite his squabbling family." So, basically, it's like the dinner scene in
Flirting
with Disaster, except for 90 minutes - and with even more Jews? Sweet!Not surprisingly, ThinkFilm plans to give the film a Passover release (that's in April).
