A Matter of Size

6.0 / 10

(23 votes)

Four overweight friends from the Israeli city of Ramle are fed up of dieting and the dieting club they belong to. When Herzl (155 kilos), the main protagonist, loses his job as a cook and starts working as a dishwasher in a Japanese restaurant in Ramle he discovers the world of Sumo where large people such as himself are honored and appreciated. Through Kitano (60 kilos), the restaurant owner, a former Sumo coach in Japan (who is supposedly hiding from the Yakuza in Israel), he falls in love with a sport involving "two fatsos in diapers and girly hairdos". Herzl wants Kitano to be their coach but Kitano is reluctant - they first have to earn their spurs. "A MATTER OF SIZE" is a comedy about a ‘coming out’ of a different kind - overweight people learning to accept themselves.

Country:

France,

Germany,

Israel

Genre:

Comedy,

Drama

Duration:

90 minutes

Year:

2009

Director:

Erez Tadmor

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Company:

K5 Film

Cast:
Itzik Cohen

Herzl

Dvir Benedek

Aharon

Alon Dahan

Gidi

Shmulik Cohen

Sami

Irit Kaplan

Zehava

Crew:
Erez Tadmor

Director

Sharon Maymon

Director

Danny Cohen-Solal

Screenplay

Sharon Maymon

Screenplay

David Gurfinkel

Director of Photography