Even as the country fought the Nazis in WWII, anti-Semitism, both subtle and otherwise, still found fertile ground…
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Cast
William H. Macy (Lawrence Newman)Laura Dern (Gertrude Hart)David Paymer (Mr. Finkelstein)Meat Loaf (Fred)Kay Hawtrey (Mrs. Newman)Michael Copeman (Carlson)Kenneth Welsh (Father Crighton)Joseph Ziegler (Mr. Gargan)Arlene Meadows (Mrs. Dewitt)Peter Oldring (Willy Doyle)Robert McCarrol (Meeting Hall Man)Shaun Austin-Olsen (Sullivan)Kevin Jubinville (Mr. Cole Stevens)B.J. McQueen (Mel)Conrad Bergschneider (Tough's Leader)Brad Austin (First Tough)David Blacker (Petey)Beatriz Pizano (Rape Victim)
Director
Neal Slavin
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Synopsis
In the waning months of World War II, a man and his wife are mistakenly identified as Jews by their anti-Semitic Brooklyn neighbors. Suddenly the victims of religious and racial persecution, they find themselves aligned with a local Jewish immigrant in a struggle for dignity and survival.
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