My Mexican Shivah (Morirse está en Hebreo)

Release Date: August 29, 2008 (NY) Studio: Emerging Pictures Director: Not Available Screenwriter: Not Available Starring: Not Available Genre: Comedy MPAA Rating: Not Available Official Website: Not Available Review: Not Available DVD Review: Not Available DVD: Not Available Movie Poster: Not Available Production Stills: Not Available Plot Summary: Set in Polanco, a Jewish quarter of Mexico City, Springall_s seriocomic drama depicts the religious rituals and dysfunctional dynamics of a Mexican Jewish family coping with the untimely death of their beloved pater familias Moishe (Sergio Klainer). Cultures collide as Moishe_s large family and assorted eccentric friends gather to pay their respects to the dead, sitting shivah for a week, as is the Jewish tradition. Watching the loca familia in mourning is a pair of irascible (and... [read full story]