66, directed by Ludi Boeken, is showing at the AMC Loews Mountainside Theatre. It is also playing at 11:00 a.m. on November 17.
66 takes place in England during the summer of '66, and the country is about to be consumed by World Cup Fever. For 12-year-old Bernie, the biggest day of his life is looming, the day he becomes a man - his Bar Mitzvah. However Bernie's North London family seems a little distracted. His obsessive-compulsive father Manny is concerned about the giant supermarket opening opposite his grocery shop, and his mother, Ester (Helena Bonham Carter), is busy worrying about her husband, Manny, and Bernie's older brother, Alvie. But Bernie believes his Bar Mitzvah is about to change all this. He'll no longer be the kid everyone ignores, and he envisions and begins to plan the perfect ceremony and reception, where everyone will acknowledge his new status. Unfortunately for Bernie, things don't go according to plan.
Also showing the short Seltzer Works directed by Jessica Edwards.
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The Film Festival is sponsored by the JCC of Central New Jersey in Scotch Plains.
