R | 1h 57m | Comedy | January 27, 2023
Note: The trailer might not be appropriate for young viewers.
“Black-ish” writer Kenya Barris directs “You People,” (co-written by Jonah Hill), which stars Hill and Lauren London as an engaged couple whose Jewish and Muslim-African-American parents can’t get over their differences and self-centeredly throw a monkey-wrench into the love between their children. It’s reminiscent of some the humorous cultural racial squabbling that used to go on in Woody Allen movies.
The “disapproving in-laws” rom-com plotline has been around forever; the update here is that Ezra Cohen (Jonah Hill) is Jewish, from West Los Angeles, and Amira Mohammed (Lauren London) is black and from Compton, California. In light of Kanye West’s recent glass-raising to Hitler on Alex Jones’s show, a Black-Jewish rom-com feels timely….