Only Human on DVD (2005)

A customer from london , 15/06/2005

this is by far the funniest movie i have seen in a long time. set around the story of leni, bringing her palestinian fiance to meet her jewish family - it looks at whether love can truly transcend age-old cultural boundaries, and more importantly, survive being married to a very dysfunctional family. The pace rarely slackens with joke after the joke, this film is teeming with one liners, comic subplots, visual humour and twists and turns in every direction so that within the first 20 minutes it seems that rafi has inadvertently killed his future father-in-law with a block of frozen soup... [this is only the beginning!] full of wonderful characters and sharp acting from the entire cast this comedy of errors is a must see (and more than once)! life never shapes out entirely as we plan and we tend to make all too many mistakes but after all... we're only human

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TristanWhite [Highly rated reviewer] , 27/09/2006

A Jewish family, living in Madrid. Daughter Leni, who has been working as a TV presenter in Barcelona, arrives in Madrid to introduce her Palestinian boyfriend to her mad family. This is an excellent farce, with some excellent characters. Also includes Amr Diab's excellent song Alem Alla, one of my favourites. A good laugh. Oh, and no ducks get hurt in the making of the film. :-)

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A customer from Surrey , 30/10/2007

Entertaining and different. Some bits are hillarious. A very nice movie.

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Martin Cross from Glasgow, Scotland [Highly rated reviewer] , 03/12/2007

Spain doesn't have a big Jewish population (thanks to the Inquisition) and the Spanish don't share our Anglo-Saxon assumptions and clichees about Jewish families. That may be why this slight but enjoyable farce about a Jewish Madrilena bringing home her not-entirely -convincing Palestinian boyfriend is mercifully free from oye-veys and Volvo jokes. Nice performances, and the way the besotted couple can't keep their hands off each other is both sweet and sexy.

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Martin Cross from Glasgow, Scotland [Highly rated reviewer] , 03/12/2007

Spain doesn't have a big Jewish population (thanks to the Inquisition) and the Spanish don't share our Anglo-Saxon assumptions and clichees about Jewish families. That may be why this slight but enjoyable farce about a Jewish Madrilena bringing home her not-entirely -convincing Palestinian boyfriend is mercifully free from oye-veys and Volvo jokes. Nice performances, and the way the besotted couple can't keep their hands off each other is both sweet and sexy.

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TristanWhite [Highly rated reviewer] , 27/09/2006

A Jewish family, living in Madrid. Daughter Leni, who has been working as a TV presenter in Barcelona, arrives in Madrid to introduce her Palestinian boyfriend to her mad family. This is an excellent farce, with some excellent characters. Also includes Amr Diab's excellent song Alem Alla, one of my favourites. A good laugh. Oh, and no ducks get hurt in the making of the film. :-)

  2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

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