Paul Weiland directed the 2006 British comedy film Sixty Six.
The film follows Bernie Reubens, a Jewish teenager whose planned bar mitzvah takes place during the 1966 FIFA World Cup final. Bernie worries that guests and family members will care more about the football match than his ceremony.
Sixty Six was written and directed by Weiland, drawing on aspects of his own childhood. The cast includes Gregg Sulkin as Bernie, Helena Bonham Carter as his mother, and Eddie Marsan as his father.
The title refers to 1966, the year England hosted and won the World Cup. The film’s central conflict is fictional, but its football setting uses a real historical event. It is distinct from the 1976 television play Bar Mitzvah Boy, written by Jack Rosenthal.