Tickling Leo

Name: Tickling Leo
Genre: Drama
Released: September 4, 2009
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 49

2009

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Barn Door Pictures | Release Date: September 4, 2009

Summary: When Zak and his girlfriend Delphina visit his estranged father in the Catskills, they find him suffering from dementia and inadvertently uncover a dark family secret from WWII: an impossible sacrifice Zak's grandfather made to join Rudolph Kasztner's controversial freedom train out of Hungary. (Barn Door Pictures)

Director: Jeremy Davidson

Genre(s): Drama

Runtime: 91 min

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Ella Taylor

Davidson weaves deeper questions of who a Jew is into this powerful tale of a clan shredded by the rage and hatred passed down through three generations. Read full review

Doris Toumarkine

Leo should satisfy serious older filmgoers, even if it suffers from wobbly storytelling. Read full review

S. James Snyder

Flimsy dialogue and fickle characters undercut the weighty historical demons in this fractured family portrait of three generations of men dealing with their emotional scars. Read full review

Ronnie Scheib

A radiant perf by Annie Parisse and a virtuoso turn by Eli Wallach are insufficient to lift this male intergenerational angst-fest out of the ghetto. Read full review

Stephen Holden

The film’s rich performances, in which every shade of every character’s emotions registers, can go only so far to camouflage the glaring lapses in a drama that often confuses hints and allusions with coherent storytelling. Read full review

Joe Neumaier

Throughout, Davidson's intentions are honest but become lost in a haze of overly familiar story beats. Read full review

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