"Between the Temples", a New Jewish Comedy Film, Comes to Theaters Tomorrow

Between the Temples, a new very Jewish comedy film starring Carol Kane, Jason Schwartzman, and Robert Smigel, arrives in theaters tomorrow, August 23.

As Stephen Silver wrote for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency,

The first sound in Between the Temples is a piercing blast from a shofar. Several scenes of the new film are set in a synagogue and depict familiar Jewish tableaus including bat mitzvah preparation, the rabbi/cantor relationship, donors who play an outsize role in Jewish life and a nerve-wracking family Shabbat dinner.

In other words, it may be the most Jewish mainstream movie of the year. 

Between the Temples, which arrives in theaters Friday, tells the story of Cantor Ben Gottlieb (Jason Schwartzman), who works at a Reform synagogue in upstate New York and is grieving the death of his novelist wife a year earlier. Carol Kane stars as Carla, his childhood music teacher, who grew up without Jewish tradition but now wants an adult bat mitzvah.

The duo forms the heart of a warm intergenerational buddy comedy-drama that plays out in an archetypal Jewish setting.

Here is the official trailer for the movie. Enjoy!