The cast includes Jon Bass and Meghan Leathers as the happy couple, Kyra Sedgwick and David Paymer as his parents, Milana Vayntrub as his sister, Theo Taplitz as his brother, and Cliff "Method Man" Smith as the doorman Jordan. In movies, bookending is a short scene in the beginning which then continues at the conclusion. Josh Mostel and Stephen Singer make cameos in the bookends.
Daniel Robbins directs from his script co-written by Zack Weiner. Eli Keszler's score is not available to stream.
Bass was blogged for Sword of Trust, Sedgwick for The Edge of Seventeen, Method Man for Paterson, and Mostel for State of Play. I've seen a few things Leathers and Singer have been in but don't remember them. Some of my favorites of Paymer's long career are City Slickers (1991), Mr. Saturday Night (1992) (supporting actor Oscar nomination), nine episodes of The Good Wife (2009-16), and six of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017-23).
Robbins, Weiner, and Keszler are not known to me but the latter played percussion on Uncut Gems.
A couple of my friends who saw this at a Jewish Film Festival did not like it, but Rotten Tomatoes' critics and audiences are keeping the candles lit with averages of 84 and 82%. I downloaded it from Netflix to watch on a long flight on January 14.
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