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| Max Minsky and Me |
In the world of Jewish film, an often serious and mature genre, it is rare to come across family-oriented comedies, so imagine our delight to find this little gem of a story set, of all places, in present-day Jewish Berlin.
Nelly Sue Edelmeister is a super-smart 12-year-old whose twin obsessions are astronomy and her distant heartthrob (and fellow stargazer), young Edouard, Prince of Luxembourg!
Nelly lives in Berlin with her parents who are very eager for Nelly to crack down on her bat mitzvah studies. Nelly doesn't take much interest in them and has even less patience for the very unbookish concerns of her schoolmates, whose lives centre on the girls' basketball team.
But when Nelly learns that those who make the basketball team will go to a tournament in Luxembourg hosted by her favourite prince, she makes a deal with a 15-year-old neighbour, Max: she'll do his homework for him if he coaches her to become a clutch basketball player. Thus begins the delicate and unlikely friendship between gawky Nelly and reluctant Max.
This is a humorous and heart-warming coming-of-age film that explores the importance of family and friendship.
