Shabbat Dinner

Jun 16, 2012

0h 14m

★ 6.6

Overview

Shabbat Dinner is boring as usual for William Shore. His mother has invited two crazy hippies and their son and is doing her best to show off, his father is drunk and berating their oddball guests, and he doesn't have much in common with their son Virgo. That is, until Virgo tells him that he has just come out as gay.

Genres

Drama

Romance

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Cast

Rebecca Shore

Eva Kaminsky

William Shore

Chris London

Virgo Bernstein-Cohen

Dan Shaked

David Bernstein-Cohen

Peter Tedeschi

Susan Bernstein-Cohen

Dawn Yanek

Arnold Shore

Michael Wikes

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