The Week Of Movie Review (2024)

THE WEEK OF follows Long Island contractor Kenny Lustiger (Adam Sandler) as he tries to mount a decent but discount Jewish wedding for his beloved daughter Sarah (Allison Strong) to her med student black fiancé Tyler (Roland Buck III). Stubbornly refusing a financial contribution from Tyler's wealthy Los Angeles surgeon dad Kirby (Chris Rock), Kenny secures the rundown motel his company did shoddy work for, and everything that can go wrong does. Many jokes derive from the indignities of Uncle Seymour (Jim Barone), an 87-year-old double amputee with diabetes, whose wheelchair doesn't work. Kenny cheerfully carries his uncle everywhere. Seymour runs out of clean laundry and wears his WWII uniform to a Little League game, where it's assumed he lost his legs in battle rather than to diabetes, encouraging strangers to repeatedly thank him for his service. Eventually, the mayor offers to honor him as a war hero with a party at City Hall, which Kenny plans to secretly use as his daughter's wedding reception. When Seymour attends the bachelor party at a trampoline studio filled with strippers, he falls into a pit of spongy cubes and has a terminal stroke. The mayor reneges on the party, leaving Kenny to save face with his family (and this involves a bag full of live bats -- don't ask), and then a return to Plan A, the leaky motel. Tyler's bon vivant dad, who had left his son and daughter to pursue celebrity surgeries and unlimited women in Los Angeles, now disdains Kenny and his clan for being coarse and broke. But at the wedding, Kirby confesses to Kenny that he wishes he had devoted his life to his family, as Kenny had, instead of to his selfish whims. He seems to renew his commitment to his kids and ex-wife, and bonds with Kenny as they plan a family Thanksgiving at his home in St. Lucia, on his dime.