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Matter of Size, A
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When a fed-up, 340-pound, wannabe chef (Itzik Cohen) with low self-esteem, who lives with his widowed, belittling mother (Levana Finkelstein) while falling for an overweight social worker (Irit Kaplan) he meets at a weight loss group run by a nonempathetic diet guru (Evelin Hagoel), begins washing dishes at a Japanese restaurant in Israel in this funny, endearing, lighthearted, down-to-earth, 90-minute, 2009 comedy, he coerces his Japanese Zionist boss/owner (Togo Igawa), a former sumo referee, to train him and three obese friends, including a married plumber (Dvir Benedek) whose unhappy wife (Hila Sourjoun) is cheating on him, a closeted restaurant owner (Alon Dahan), and a news cameraman (Shmulik Cohen), to be competitive sumo wrestlers and train for a match in Japan.

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Year:
2012
Rating:
 NR
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