Today’s Special
2010, NR, 99 min.
Directed by David Kaplan, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Aasif Mandvi, Jess Weixler, Naseeruddin Shah, Madhur Jaffrey, Harish Patel.

Not reviewed at press time. Circumstances force a young American man to take over his family’s Indian restaurant. The film, which was not screened for press, is inspired by the Obie Award-winning play Sakina’s Restaurant by The Daily Show With Jon Stewart‘s Mandvi.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.