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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.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 27
  2. Negative: 2 out of 27
  1. 75
    Doesn'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.
  2. 60
    A 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.
  3. Reviewed by: Dennis Harvey
    30
    A stilted, heavy-handed parable about fascistic intolerance.

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