Sixty Six

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Sixty Six

PG-13

2008

1h 33m

Biography

Comedy

Drama

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The bar mitzvah of a boy looks like a disaster when it coincides with the final of the 1966 World Cup.

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Likable but overly sentimental, Sixty Six has snatches of sharp dialogue but is ultimately too predicable.

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Kristin M. Jones

Film Comment Magazine

02/14/2018

Throughout Sixty Six, Klahr unleashes a dazzling array of visual ideas, deftly combined with sounds, silence, or music and all in the service of what he calls the film's "pop associational mindscape."

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Leo Goldsmith

IndieWire

08/08/2009

Cleaves too closely to the pattern set out by more original films with similar subject matter. Its obvious distinctions of time and place come through in clever details, but these don't seem to serve Weiland's autobiography so much as situate it into a fa

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Andrew Sarris

Observer

10/23/2008

Since Mr. Weiland himself had grown up in a Jewish section of North London, he was able to include many details of his own childhood.

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Jason Heck

Kansas City Star

11/14/2008

2/4

A film that tries too hard and wastes a cast of skilled veterans and talented newcomers.

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isla s

@RT89656869 09/03/2022

This is a relatively easy watch - its mildly amusing at times and features some decent characters. The cast includes Helena Bonham Carter and Catherine Tate. It's not a particularly good film, nor is it awful but it passes the time ok. I did feel there was a nice sense of British family life at the time it's set (the 1960s) and it had a bit of heart to it, so I'm giving it this rating. I would recommend this film, yes.

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Dave C

@RT09838700 07/20/2021

Forgettable. Doesn't really ‘peak'

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07/06/2021

A perfectly likeable story of a young Jewish boy in London, 1966 who is planning his bar mitzvah, only to find to his horror, that it is scheduled for the very day that England play Germany in the World Cup final at Wembley. Helena Bonham Carter and Eddie Marsden play parents to Gregg Sulkin's Bernie. There's a few good laughs and it does have a genuinely loveable, feel good script even for a complete football hater like me.

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04/28/2014

Fantastic British comedy set in 1966. Tears and laughter - British pathos at its best.

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04/12/2013

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I only watched it cuz Helena Bonham carter was in it.. it was WEIRD!

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12/09/2012

This was a delight. Bonham Careter is a such a good actress and the attention to detail was great. Charming.................

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Manny

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Bernie

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Synopsis

The bar mitzvah of a boy looks like a disaster when it coincides with the final of the 1966 World Cup.

Director: Paul Weiland
Producer: Elizabeth Karlsen
Screenwriter: Bridget O'Connor, Peter Straughan
Distributor: First Independent Pictures
Rating: PG-13 (Brief Nudity|Some Sexual Content|Language)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 1, 2008, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA): $224.5K
Runtime: 1h 33m