Meet the Patels

Name: Meet the Patels
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Documentary
Released: September 11, 2015
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 70

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Alchemy | Release Date: September 11, 2015 | PG

Summary: Meet The Patels is a real life romantic comedy about Ravi Patel, an almost-30-year-old Indian-American who enters a love triangle between the woman of his dreams...and his parents. [Alchemy]

Director: Geeta Patel and Ravi Patel

Genre(s): Comedy, Romance, Documentary

Rating: PG

Runtime: 88 min

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Lawrence Toppman

Oct 2, 2015

This story of a guy looking for love in many of the wrong places turns out to be one of the happiest surprises of the movie year. Read full review

Kenneth Turan

Sep 10, 2015

Meet The Patels is more than just a hoot. Its candor and empathy allow it to make keen points about love, marriage, family and the unexpected complications that American freedoms can bring to immigrant lives. Read full review

Elise Nakhnikian

Sep 7, 2015

In this picaresque documentary, the lightly comic musings of a likeable, somewhat nerdy Indian-American actor go surprisingly deep. Read full review

David Lewis

Sep 24, 2015

A clever hybrid of documentary and romantic comedy. Read full review

Abbey Bender

Sep 8, 2015

Meet the Patels is a good-natured documentary that plays like a romantic comedy. Read full review

Barbara VanDenburgh

Oct 8, 2015

Less obvious is how his parents will react should Ravi break ways with tradition and confess his true feelings. Their struggle to maintain their sense of cultural identity in a rapidly changing world is far more moving than any grown man’s commitment issues, even when that grown man is as ingratiating as Ravi. Read full review

Marc Mohan

Sep 24, 2015

Just because it's how they did things in the old country doesn't excuse clinging to these outdated, oppressive traditions, even if Ravi manages to negotiate them with surprising good humor. Read full review

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BHBarry

Oct 3, 2015

"Meet the Patels" is a US produced film which is basically a documentary starring Ravi Patel and his sister, Geeta, the children of Champa and Vasant Patel. Having emigrated to America from India, the Patel parents are anxious for their two American born children to marry and want them to"Meet the Patels" is a US produced film which is basically a documentary starring Ravi Patel and his sister, Geeta, the children of Champa and Vasant Patel. Having emigrated to America from India, the Patel parents are anxious for their two American born children to marry and want them to select their respective mates as the two parents did in India many years ago. Intermixed with cartoon characters and running commentary from the brother. as his sister ardently films the family’s interactions, this is, on the surface, a film about Indian parents seeking to preserve their cultural line and identity. However, the film goes beyond the Indian experience and one sees in these parents any first generation couple seeking to preserve their heritage via their offspring. Champa, the mother, could be the Italian or Jewish mother and Vasant, the father, could be any concerned father wanting his children to stay in their ethnic arena. In its own amateurish way, the film holds the viewer’s interest and gives us a "fly on the wall " feeling as we watch caring parents and children respect each other while not necessarily accepting their generational differences. The universality of the film cannot be denied and the warmth and charm of each of the family members helps make this a really nice viewing experience. I give the film an 8 and suggest that, if given the chance you meet the Patels, You will like them..… Expand

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EpicLadySponge

Apr 2, 2016

Meet the Patels is romantically funny in some sort of way or two. At least some parts are actually worth giving a laugh shot. If you want to know the true adventures of love and want to laugh, this is for you.

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Brent_Marchant

Sep 12, 2015

An often-uproariously funny documentary about the search for love while coping with the sometimes-suffocating expectations of family and culture. Despite its somewhat-predictable narrative, the film nevertheless delivers it with loads of fresh laughs and outrageous humor. And to think it'sAn often-uproariously funny documentary about the search for love while coping with the sometimes-suffocating expectations of family and culture. Despite its somewhat-predictable narrative, the film nevertheless delivers it with loads of fresh laughs and outrageous humor. And to think it's all wrapped up in a documentary format.… Expand

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