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Two Iconic Oddballs Make the Perfect Pair in Between the Temples


Nathan Silver’s clever Sundance comedy stars Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane, two iconic weirdos from different eras of American cinema.

Nathan Silver’s clever Sundance comedy stars Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane, two emblematic weirdos from different eras of American cinema. Ben and Carla’s growing closeness eventually poses something of a problem because his two mothers (Caroline Aaron and Dolly De Leon) are eager to set him up with a nice young Jewish girl, perhaps even their rabbi’s daughter (Madeline Weinstein), who we are assured is also kind of a mess. When Carla tells Ben about her desire for a bat mitzvah and how she was deprived of one as a child because her parents were Communists (which made her a so-called “red diaper baby”), she makes him repeat everything she just said verbatim.

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