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You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah

You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah

Comedy · Drama · 2023

Stacy and Lydia are BFFs who've always dreamed about having epic bat mitzvahs. But things start to go comically awry when a popular boy and middle school drama threatens their friendship and their rite of passage.

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You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah

“7th grade drama just hits different.”

2023 Comedy · Drama 1h 43m

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6.5 / 10

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Stacy and Lydia are BFFs who've always dreamed about having epic bat mitzvahs. But things start to go comically awry when a popular boy and middle school drama threatens their friendship and their rite of passage.

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The people responsible.

Directed by

Sammi Cohen

Written by

Alison Peck

Sunny Sandler

Sunny Sandler

Stacy Friedman

Samantha Lorraine

Samantha Lorraine

Lydia Rodriguez Katz

Dylan Hoffman

Dylan Hoffman

Andy Goldfarb

Dylan Chloe Dash

Dylan Chloe Dash

Tara

Millie Thorpe

Millie Thorpe

Nikki

Miyako

Miyako

Kym Chang Cohen

Dean Scott Vazquez

Dean Scott Vazquez

Mateo

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Put You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah on trial.

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

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

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

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

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