Steven Spielberg's film THE FABELMANS is a deeply personal portrait of an American childhood and at the same time a cinematic homage to the (family) relationships that have shaped the filmmaker's life and career.
Sam Fabelman's passion is filmmaking - an interest that his art-loving mother Mitzi appreciates and encourages. Sam's father Burt, on the other hand, a successful engineer, approves of Sam's work but considers it nothing more than a hobby. But the fascination for moving pictures never lets go of young Sam. The up-and-coming director stages his sisters and friends in ever more elaborate film productions.