Long before helming the upcoming Netflix comedy You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah, director Sammi Cohen was a regular attendee of bar and bat mitzvahs — a type of coming-of-age ceremony for Jewish boys and girls — during her pre-teen years.
Sammi Cohen on adapting a Jewish coming-of-age novel for the big screenSammi Cohen, the director of You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah, shares what it was like to work with Adam Sandler and his family on the coming-of-age comedy, while keeping younger viewers in mind., director Sammi Cohen was a regular attendee of bar and bat mitzvahs — a type of coming-of-age ceremony for Jewish boys and girls — during her pre-teen years.
"It was important for me to make the movie feel a little more inclusive and queer, body positive, progressive, Gen Z when it came to things like social issues and family dynamics, gender and all that," said Cohen during an interview with CBC News. Stacy's pitch to mom Bree and dad Danny is a New York-themed extravaganza with a mojito bar, a yacht, and their Jewish community's go-to musical entertainment, DJ Shmuley. At least one of these is vetoed.But her relationship with lifelong bestie Lydia starts to go awry after the former has an embarrassing menstruation mishap in front of a group of popular kids, including her crush, a Star-of-David-sporting boy named Andy Goldfarb.
As the rest of the story unfolds, Stacy — with guidance from goofy Rabbi Rebecca — learns what it means to really do a mitzvah. As it turns out, going to a retirement home to hang out with your crush and his grandma doesn't count.
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