Keeping Up With The Steins (2006) 7/10

Starring : Daryl Sabara, Jami Gertz, Jeremy Piven, Cheryl Hines
Director : Scott Marshall
Running Time : 84 mins

With his bar mitzvah looming over him, Benjamin Fiedler (Sabara) invites his estranged hippy grandfather to stay with his family in the hope that his visit will make his mother and father forget about trying to throw him the perfect bar mitzvah party. Inside the visit teaches Benjamin the value of family.

This wasn't a bad movie, but it suffered from having little real direction. Benjamin's decision to contact his grandfather to disrupt his bar mitzvah plans is a little convoluted and seems to not really have any effect and the Steins themselves, played by Larry Miller and Sandra Taylor, are sadly underused.

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