The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
Rating: 6 · 1988 · Drama, Comedy · Canada · 1 ч 35 мин
Description
The early 1960s: In preparation for his Bar Mitzvah, a Jewish boy, Max Glick (Noam Zylberman) from a small Manitoba community with an overbearing family tries to navigate his coming-of-age with his family's condescension and bigotry using his sarcastic, Jewish humour. The town's rabbi dies, and a sub-plot develops in which Max's father (Aaron Schwartz) and grandfather (Jan Rubes)-both synagogue leaders-are saddled with a traditional Hassidic rabbi who sticks out like a sore thumb among the otherwise assimilated Jewish community. To make matters more difficult, Max likes a Catholic girl (14 year old Fairuza Baulk in just her third film), whom he later competes with in a piano competition. The quirky, fun-loving rabbi tries to help him with his problems, yet harbours a secret ambition of his own. Filmed in Winnipeg and rural Beausejour, Manitoba, Canada.
Information
- Year
- 1988
- Genre
- Drama, Comedy
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 1 ч 35 мин
- TMDB
- 6
- IMDb
- 6
- Tagline
- When Max was born they cut off his .... It's 13 years later, 1960, his BarMitzvah, and they're still at it!
Director
Cast
- Noam Zylberman — Maximilian Glick
- Fairuza Balk — Celia Brzjinski
- Jan Rubeš — Augustus Glick
- Susan Douglas — Bryna Glick
- Saul Rubinek — Rabbi Teitelman
- Aaron Schwartz — Henry Glick
- William Marantz — Rabbi Kaminsky
- Sharon Corder — Sarah Glick
- Ken Zelig — Morris Moskover
- Howard Jerome — Zelig Peikes
- Alec McClure — Sandy Lubchuk