Tickling Leo

2010 • 87 minutes

About this movie

Set around the days of Yom Kippur, TICKLING LEO follows three generations of a family whose secrets and resentments threaten to wipe away its future. When he loses touch with his estranged father, Zak Pikler and his girlfriend Delphina travel to an abandoned Catskill lake where the eccentric poet Warren Yitzchak Pikler lives in solitude and declining health. As Zak copes with his fathers dementia, Delphina begins to uncover a secret the Piklers have been hiding since the Holocaust of World War II. Through twists of plot and character, TICKLING LEO lays bare the Pikler familys humorous, faulty, and always passionate search for an understanding of what it means to be an American family in the 21st century.BARN DOOR PICTURES