Keeping Up with the Steins is a 2006 comedy film directed by Scott Marshall, and starring Garry Marshall, Jeremy Piven, Jami Gertz and Daryl Hannah. The film is also a commentary on how too many Jewish families see a bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah not as a coming of age for their son or daughter, but rather as an excuse to throw outrageously lavish parties. Benjamin Fiedler is the 13-year-old son of Adam and Joanne Fiedler . After attending the elaborate bar mitzvah party for the son of Arnie Stein - which was done on a cruise ship, with a Titanic theme - Benjamin's parents decide to go all out... for his bar mitzvah. The plan is to rent Dodger Stadium for the bar mitzvah party, complete with movie stars and everything. Adam even books Neil Diamond to sing the National Anthem. However, Benjamin does not want to go through with it, as he does not even understand the words of the haftorah he has to read as part of his bar mitzvah rite. To try to stall the planning, he secretly invites his grandfather Irwin , who is now living on an Indian reservation with a New Age woman named Sacred Feather .
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| Release date: | May 12, 2006 |
| Directed by: | Scott Marshall |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 99 Minutes |
| Music by: | John Debney |
| Screenplay by: | Mark Zakarin |
| Estimated budget: | $5,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy |