![]() The centerpiece dinner bringing both sets of parents together with Ezra and Amira is one for the ages, particularly when the conversation turns to Akbar’s love for Louis Farrakhan (“He has a great vibe,” Ezra pipes in at one cringe-worthy moment). Being clued in to rapper Xzibit turns out to be comic fodder for just some of the jokes Barris and Hill provide in bulk in this culture clash. On the other side, Ezra fails to impress Amira’s dad, an architect named Akbar ( Eddie Murphy), a Kufi-wearing Muslim married to Fatima (wonderful Nia Long), both disapproving of their daughter’s involvement with Ezra who tries hard to prove he understands Black culture. Both are well intentioned but wholly embarrassing for Ezra, whose younger sister Liza (a pitch-perfect Molly Gordon) is more drolly hip to the situation. The father, Arnold ( David Duchovny), is a podiatrist with a talent for saying whatever comes to mind. Jewish mom who wants the best for her son and whose liberal attempts at relating to his new girlfriend are hilariously woke and awkward (“It will be wonderful to have Black grandkids”). Shelley Cohen ( Julia Louis-Dreyfus), a Westside L.A. Sparks eventually fly after a lunch date, and they hook up, soon moving in together. ![]() In an amusing rideshare mix-up he meets rom-com cute with Amira Mohammed (a luminous Lauren London). Plotwise, Hill, whose comic timing has never been used to better effect, plays Ezra, a tattooed, blond-streaked-haired Jewish son from Brentwood who is working in a miserable job in finance, but has his heart in doing his “Mo And E-Z Show” podcast with his good Black friend (Sam Jay). It also happens to be a glorious love letter to Los Angeles like no other movie in years. This one marches to its own beat and has its feet firmly planted in the present - for better or worse. Keep in mind this is not a remake of that film, or a more recent take on parents at odds over their kids’ romantic choices, i.e, Meet The Parents. ![]() 'Zoey 101's Alexa Nikolas Accuses Jonah Hill Of "Predatory Behavior" When She Was 16 Hill's Attorney Calls Claim "Complete Fabrication" With a packed house the laughter was so continuous and loud for You People it was hard to hear a lot of the lines. Ironically, I saw it this week at its world premiere at the same Westwood Village theater where I saw Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner all those years ago. ![]() With antisemitism and racism back on the rise in 2023 America, however, the concept of an interracial/interfaith marriage, Black and white, Jew and Muslim, could not be more timely or needed, and in co-star Jonah Hill and director Kenya Barris’ whip-smart screenplay is also a knock-you-out-of-your-seat laugh riot. The idea was switched in a 2005 Bernie Mac-Ashton Kutcher remake that all those years later did not have the same impact. Of course, back then it was a major social issue and even had trouble booking some Southern U.S. ![]() In a nutshell, the brilliantly hilarious, pertinent and wickedly smart new movie You Peopleis in some ways a new age Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, that landmark 1967 Tracy-Hepburn-Poitier Oscar-winning comedy about the effect an interracial relationship has on the parents of the young couple. ![]()
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