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Abe

Abe

Drama · Comedy · 2020

A 12-year-old boy from Brooklyn tries to unite his half-Israeli and half-Palestinian family through cooking.

Movie details

Abe

“You can’t choose your family.”

2020 Drama · Comedy 1h 25m

Critical arithmetic

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TMDB

6.8 / 10

Community rating

A 12-year-old boy from Brooklyn tries to unite his half-Israeli and half-Palestinian family through cooking.

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What this film says about your taste.

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The archetype split

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Fernando Grostein Andrade

Written by

Fernando Grostein Andrade · Lameece Issaq · Jacob Kader · Christopher Vogler

Noah Schnapp

Noah Schnapp

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Dagmara Dominczyk

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Mark Margolis

Mark Margolis

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Tom Mardirosian

Tom Mardirosian

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Arian Moayed

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Josh Elliott Pickel

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Court is in session

Put Abe on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Prestige Tourist

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.