Tag Archives: jewish

Keeping the Faith

IMDB Rating: 6.60
17502 votes

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A love triangle between three friends. Rabbi Jake Schram and Father Brian Finn, two friends, are out to update their religions and draw in more worshipers. With the arrival of Anna Reilly, an old childhood friend of the two, the men's lives are thrown a curve ball. Anna has become a stunning beauty with a lot of spunk and ambition, and both of them want her. A major road block to Anna for both men is their religion. Jake is up for a head position at his synagogue and taking on a non-Jewish partner is frowned upon, besides the fact that his mother disowned his brother for marrying a non-Jewish woman. Brian has given a vow of celibacy to become a priest.
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Rabbi Jake SchramBen Stiller
Father Brian FinnEdward Norton
Anna RileyJenna Elfman
Also posted in 2000, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Flirting with Disaster

IMDB Rating: 6.70
6188 votes

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Five months after the birth of his son, Mel Coplin remains unable to name the child until he has met his own biological parents and discovered who he "really is." He, his wife Nancy, and his social-worker-in-training Tina Kalb jet off to California to meet his birth mother—who turns out not to be his mother, due to an error with the agency's adoption records. The quartet sets out in search of Mel's real parents, with tensions growing because of the sexual chemistry lacking between Mel and Nancy and growing between Mel and Tina.
Actors
Mel CoplinBen Stiller
Nancy CoplinPatricia Arquette
Tina KalbTéa Leoni
Also posted in 1996, Comedy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

I’m Not There

IMDB Rating: 8.10
1682 votes

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Six incarnations of Bob Dylan: an actor, a folk singer, an electrified troubadour, Rimbaud, Billy the Kid, and Woody Guthrie. Put Dylan's music behind their adventures, soliloquies, interviews, marriage, and infidelity. Recreate 1960s documentaries in black and white. Put each at a crossroads, the artist becoming someone else. Jack, the son of Ramblin' Jack Elliott, finds Jesus; handsome Robbie falls in love then abandons Claire. Woody, a lad escaped from foster care, hobos the U.S. singing; Billy awakes in a valley threatened by a six-lane highway; Rimbaud talks. Jude, booed at Newport when he goes electric, fences with reporters, pundits, and fans. He won't be classified.
Actors
Jude QuinnCate Blanchett
Arthur RimbaudBen Whishaw
Jack Rollins/Pastor JohnChristian Bale
Also posted in 2007, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating, Music | Comments (0)

Cabaret

IMDB Rating: 7.70
11958 votes

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Sally Bowles, an American singer in 1930s Berlin, fall in love with bi-sexual Brian. They are both then seduced by Max, a rich playboy. Sally becomes pregnant, and Brian offers to marry her... All the characters are linked by the Kit-Kat club, a nightspot where Sally sings.
Actors
Sally BowlesLiza Minnelli
Brian RobertsMichael York
Maximilian von HeuneHelmut Griem
Also posted in 1972, Drama, High IMDB rating, Musical | Comments (0)

Shine

IMDB Rating: 7.50
17016 votes

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Based on the true story of Australian pianist David Helfgott, this delightful movie charts the early and traumatic early years. Telling the story in flashback we see David as he grows up and into a child prodigy while his father abuses him and his siblings with the memory of his childhood in Europe and the loss of his family in the concentration camps. David finally breaks away from his father and goes away to study overseas, he later suffers a breakdown and returns to Australia and a life in an institution. Many years later he is released and through several twists of fate (in reality even more unlikely than film portrays) he starts playing a piano in a bar before finally returning to the concert hall.
Actors
David Helfgott - AdultGeoffrey Rush
TonyJustin Braine
SylviaSonia Todd
Also posted in 1996, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating, Music, Romance | Comments (0)

Garden State

IMDB Rating: 7.90
64696 votes

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Andrew Largeman shuffled through life in a lithium-induced coma until his mother's death inspired a vacation from the pills to see what might happen. A moderately successful TV actor living in Los Angeles, "Large" hasn't been home to the Garden State in nine years. But even with 3,000 miles between them, he's been unable to escape his domineering father Gideon and the silencing effect he's had on his son from afar. Stunned to find himself in his hometown after such a long absence, Large finds old acquaintances around every corner living quite unique lives as gravediggers, fast food knights and the panderers of pyramid schemes. Meanwhile, at home, he does his best to avoid a long-simmering but inevitable confrontation with his father. By a twist of fate, Large meets Sam, a girl who is everything he isn't. A blast of color, hope and quirks, Sam becomes a sidekick who refuses to ride in his sidecar. Her warmth and fearlessness give Large the courage to open his heart to the joy and pain of the infinite abyss that is life.
Actors
Andrew LargemanZach Braff
BusboyKenneth Graymez
Restaurant ManagerGeorge C. Wolfe
Also posted in 2004, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (1)

For Your Consideration

IMDB Rating: 6.20
4320 votes

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Hollywood send-up. No-name actors are making a low-budget period drama called "Home for Purim," when an anonymous post on the Internet suggests that one performance is Oscar-worthy. Then, two more cast members get Oscar-related press: buzz in "Variety" and appearances on TV prompt the studio executives to insist on changes in the script in anticipation of a blockbuster. Jump ahead a few months to the days before Oscar nominees are announced: just the possibility of a nomination has changed the actors' lives. Agents, publicists, make-up artists, local celebrity reporters, and other bit players round out the backstage ensemble. Hooray for Hollywood!
Actors
Marilyn HackCatherine O'Hara
Studio Gate GuardStephen Rannazzisi
Sandy LaneEd Begley Jr.
Also posted in 2006, Comedy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Poseidon Adventure

IMDB Rating: 7.00
10262 votes

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At midnight on New Years Eve the S.S. Poseidon is struck by a 90' tidal wave and is capsized. The Reverend Frank Scott leads nine Survivors; an elderly couple, Manny and Belle Rosen headed to Israel to see their grandson; A New York detective and his ex-prostitute wife, Mike and Linda Rogo on their second honeymoon to Italy; A young brother and sister, Robin and Susan Shelby going to meet their parents in Greece; A haberdasher James Martin; a pop singer Nonnie Parry, and a waiter from the ship Acres. They travel from the grand ballroom struggling through, steam, fire and rising water in the up-side-down ship to reach the bottom (the propeller shaft), now the top.
Actors
Rev. Frank ScottGene Hackman
Det. Lt. Mike RogoErnest Borgnine
James MartinRed Buttons
Also posted in 1972, Action, Adventure, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Saving Private Ryan

IMDB Rating: 8.40
172681 votes

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Opening with the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion under Cpt. Miller fight ashore to secure a beachhead. Amidst the fighting, two brothers are killed in action. Earlier in New Guinea, a third brother is KIA. Their mother, Mrs. Ryan, is to receive all three of the grave telegrams on the same day. The United States Army Chief of Staff, George C. Marshall, is given an opportunity to alleviate some of her grief when he learns of a fourth brother, Private James Ryan, and decides to send out 8 men (Cpt. Miller and select members from 2nd Rangers) to find him and bring him back home to his mother...
Actors
Captain John H. MillerTom Hanks
Sergeant Mike HorvathTom Sizemore
Pvt. Richard ReibenEdward Burns
Also posted in 1998, Action, Drama, High IMDB rating, War | Comments (1)

The Jazz Singer

IMDB Rating: 5.00
966 votes

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Neil Diamond stars as Yussel in this tale of a young Jewish cantor who strives to make a career in music. Against the wishes of his rigid father and his loving wife, Yussel travels to California to play his music. Swept up by the excitement, he meets a woman who shares his dream. He grows apart from his family, and becomes confused about what he should ultimately do with his life.
Actors
Cantor RabinovitchLaurence Olivier
Jess RobinNeil Diamond
Molly BellLucie Arnaz
Also posted in 1980, Drama, Music | Comments (0)