Tickling Leo
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| Directed by | Jeremy Davidson |
| Produced by | Mary Stuart Masterson, Steven Weisman, Peter C.B. Masterson, Paul Schnee, Jeremy Davidson |
| Written by | Jeremy Davidson |
| Starring | Lawrence Pressman Daniel Sauli Annie Parisse Eli Wallach Ronald Guttman Victoria Clark |
| Cinematography | Peter Masterson |
| Release date(s) | September 4, 2009 (limited) |
| Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Tickling Leo is a 2009 independent drama film about three generations of a Jewish family whose silence about their past has kept them apart.[1] The film was directed by Jeremy Davidson, and stars Lawrence Pressman, Daniel Sauli, Annie Parisse, Eli Wallach, Ronald Guttman and Victoria Clark.
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[edit] Synopsis
When Zak and his girlfriend Delphina visit his estranged father in the Catskills, they find him suffering from dementia and inadvertently uncover a dark family secret from WWII: an impossible sacrifice Zak's grandfather (Eli Wallach) made to join Rudolph Kasztner's controversial freedom train out of Hungary.
[edit] Release
Tickling Leo screened at the Stony Brook Film Festival on July 25, 2009 and then opened in Manhattan, Queens and on Long Island Theaters on September 4, 2009 with a simultaneous DVD release. The film continued on to play to audiences in NorthEast, Florida and California.
[edit] Critical Reception
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[edit] Awards
- 2009 Jury Award for Best Feature- 2009 Stony Brook Film Festival[2]
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