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- Starring: Laura Dern, William H. Macy
- Summary: Set during the last days of World War II, this is the story of a Brooklyn man and his wife (Macy, Dern) who are mistaken for Jews by their anti-Semitic neighbors.
- Director: Neal Slavin
- Genre(s): Drama, Romance
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Positive: 10 out of 27
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Mixed: 15 out of 27
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Negative: 2 out of 27
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75Doesn't reach for reality; it's a deliberate attempt to look and feel like a 1940s social problems picture, right down to the texture of the color photography.
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60Dern and Macy give doughty performances in schematic roles, but glasses or no, these have to be two of the least Semitic-looking actors in American movies.
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60A hyperreal, visually layered period style that finds film noir shadows creeping in at the edges of a blue-sky, get-along-to-go-along America.
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30A stilted, heavy-handed parable about fascistic intolerance.
