My Uncle Rafael

    My Uncle Rafael
    2012

    Synopsis

    Cultures collide when an old Armenian man stars in a new reality show

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    Cast

    • John Michael HigginsDamon
    • Missi PyleBlair
    • Vahik PirhamzeiRafael / Hamo
    • Anthony ClarkJack
    • Rachel BlanchardMichele
    • Carly ChaikinKim
    • Tadeh AmirianRobo
    • Jason D. AvalosGroom's guest
    • Anahid AvanesianLinda
    • Austin ButlerCody Beck

    Recommendations

    • 60

      Los Angeles Times

      It's no great surprise how things end up for this tossed-under-one-roof bunch. How they get there, however, provides a largely fertile playground for the picture's talented comic ensemble.
    • 50

      Slant Magazine

      The Americans are clichéd and vapid, and seeing them get knocked around and told to wake up can be validating if you know people as obnoxious and spoiled as them.
    • 40

      Variety

      A behind-the-scenes comedy about the making of a reality TV show, My Uncle Rafael looks suspiciously like an outright sitcom itself, with the same careful dosage of sententiousness and one-liners.
    • 30

      Village Voice

      An insufferable import indebted to "Mrs. Doubtfire" in which a man in prosthetics helps a family cope with, and overcome, divorce.
    • 30

      The New York Times

      My Uncle Rafael stumbles over forced plotting and setups and falls prey to its hero's avuncular mushiness.