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NYU elderly Danielle (Rachel Sennott) enjoys seemingly no post-college customers but is maintaining herself comfortable by playing sugar infant for Max (Danny Deferrari). But she suddenly locates multiple disparate elements of the lady lives colliding whenever she attends a shiva for children friend with her parents, only to fulfill Max indeed there also … along with his spouse and kid. With them, this lady families, the woman seriously judgy community, and her ex-girlfriend from high-school, Maya (Molly Gordon), all-present, Danielle must juggle the various, earlier segregated selves she’s designed for the whole world.

That’s the equally traumatic and funny premise for Shiva kid, writer/director Emma Seligman’s first feature, adapted from the girl small movie of the same term. It’s the most exceedingly, pleasingly Jewish motion pictures I’ve noticed in sometime, probably since 2009’s a life threatening Man, smartly using the personal mores and events of middle-class Long area Jews. Danielle’s conflicting identities play into these exterior entanglements. All of this helps make Shiva kids a great, punchy small cringe comedy.