You’ve got to respect a movie that manages to insert nearly every stereotype about Jewish relationships into a two-minute trailer. In all seriousness though, with a cast like this one, Jewtopia may be a parody worth watching. Based on the off-broadway show of same name, Jewtopia’s ensemble includes Jon Lovitz, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Phil Rosenthal,…
We have long bemoaned the fact that female Jewish characters on screens big and small get the short shrift, and that our high points were still decades ago when Barbra took on Fanny Brice and Yentl. Well, the upcoming film version of the long-running off-Broadway comedy “Jewtopia” will not likely makes things any better. As…
In the spirit of cheesy rhymes, maybe she’ll change her name to Jennifer Love Jewitt. Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt has signed on to play a Jewish woman looking for a Jewish husband in the big-screen version of “Jewtopia,” an onstage comedy billed as the “longest-running comedy in Off-Broadway history.” The “Party of Five” and “Ghost…
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