Only Human (2006)

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Rating: R

Release Date: Jun 16, 2006

Running Time: 85 mins.

Additional Notes: dialogue Spanish, subtitled English

Country Of Origin: Spain

Country Of Origin: United Kingdom

Country Of Origin: Argentina

Country Of Origin: Portugal

starring: Norma Aleandro, Guillermo Toledo, Maria Botto, Mariana Aguilera, Fernando Ramallo, Alba Molinero, Max Berliner, Mario Martin, Emiliana Olmedo, Balbino Lacosta

director: Teresa de Peligri, Dominic Harari

Only Human (Seres queridos)

Leni has come home to introduce her fiancé Rafi to her idiosyncratic Jewish family for the first time. Everything goes smoothly until the lovers belatedly reveal that Rafi is Palestinian. Amid the ensuing hysteria, Rafi escapes to the kitchen, ostensibly to help prepare the dinner. Unfortunately he drops the soup he was meant to defrost out of the 7th floor window, hitting a pedestrian below, and as if the evening’s not going badly enough, it turns out the pedestrian may be Leni’s father.

We truly have gone global as many will see in the irreverently smart Spanish comedy, Only Human (Seres queridos), which takes many of our assumptions and stereotypes and tosses them up in the air, leaving us scrambling blindly on the floor like children in a search for the matching pieces.

Story

It's Passover in Barcelona and newly engaged lovers Rafi (Guillermo Toledo), a Palestinian professor, and Leni (Mariana Aguilera), a Jewish actress, apprehensively arrive at her parents' home after a…