Excerpt:
The Infidel
Starring: Omid Djalili, Richard Schiff
Directed by: Josh Appignanesi
Parental advisory: coarse language
Running time: 105 minutes
Rating: Two stars out of five
The joke in The Infidel is that a London cab driver named Mahmud Nasir (rubber-faced British comic Omid Djalili) is going through the papers of his dead mother and discovers that he was born Jewish. Not only that, but his birth name was Solly Shimshillewitz. "Why didn't they just call you Jewy Jew Jew Jew Jew and be done with it?" asks his neighbour, a transplanted American named Lenny Goldberg and played with much New York angst by The West Wing's Richard Schiff.