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Daniel Robbins' entertaining and fast-paced comedy about a Sabbath dinner party gone terribly wrong won the Tribeca Film Festival's top audience award. Set in the affluent Jewish community on New York's Upper West Side, "Bad Shabbos," winner of the Tribeca Film Festival's audience award, is an entertaining and fast-paced comedy about a Sabbath dinner party gone terribly wrong. After four independent features, director Daniel Robbins should get wider distribution with this tender look at several generations of modern Jews trying to balance the polarities of secular and religious life, along with the dilemma of a corpse in the bathroom. Robbins and his longtime co-writer, Zack Weiner, up the comic ante by incorporating several dysfunctional family dramas, an interfaith culture clash, and a fearless janitor. A solid ensemble cast masters the juicy dialogue and increasingly frenetic action without becoming monotonous. Director: Daniel Robbins Writers: Daniel Robbi...