Keeping Up with the Steins

Keeping Up with the Steins is a 2006 comedy film directed by Scott Marshall, and starring Garry Marshall, Jeremy Piven, Jami Gertz and Daryl Hannah. The film is a commentary on how too many Jewish families see a bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah not as a coming of age for their son or daughter, but rather as an excuse to throw outrageously lavish parties which end in drama. Plot Benjamin Fiedler is the 12-year-old son of Jewish couple Adam and Joanne Fiedler. After attending the elaborate bar mitzvah party for the son of Arnie Stein — which was done on a cruise ship, with a Titanic theme — Benjamin's parents decide to go all out for his bar mitzvah to compete with them. Benjamin is unsure of how he wants to do for the bar mitzvah party they will have for his 13th birthday in three months time. Under the pressure, he randomly chooses baseball as the theme. So Adam's plan for the festivities with the party planner is to rent Dodger Stadium, complete with movie stars and everything. Adam even books Neil Diamond to sing the National Anthem.