Reuniting the Rubins

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Reuniting the Rubins
Re-Uniting the Rubins FilmPoster.jpeg
Directed byYoav Factor
Written byYoav Factor
Produced byYoav Factor
Jonathan Weissler
Starring Timothy Spall
Honor Blackman
James Callis
Theo Stevenson
Rhona Mitra
Blake Harrison
CinematographyMiles Cook
Edited byAnthony Stadler
Production
companies
Balagan Productions
Factor Films
Distributed bymonterey media inc. (US)
Kaleidoscope Entertainment (UK)
Release date
  • 1 July 2010 (2010-07-01)
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget$7.5 million
Box office$12,631 [1]

Reuniting the Rubins is a 2010 film directed by Yoav Factor and starring Timothy Spall, Rhona Mitra, and James Callis. The majority of the film was shot in Radlett, Hertfordshire, England and South Africa. [2]

Contents

Plot

The film is a family comedy [3] chronicling a reluctantly Jewish man (Timothy Spall) who tries to re-unite his dysfunctional family in time for the Jewish celebration of Pesach so as to appease his ailing mother Honor Blackman. [4] Although they are all from the same family his estranged children hardly seem like they are from the same planet. He must reunite his son the capitalist James Callis, his daughter the eco-warrior Rhona Mitra, his son the Buddhist Monk, and his last son, a born again Rabbi. [5]

Principal cast

Release

In September 2011, Monterey Media bought the United States distribution rights from Kaleidoscope Film Distribution. [6]

Festivals

Reuniting the Rubins was selected to screen at the following festivals

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