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  • 2010
  • R
  • Cinetic Rights Management
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2010
  • R
  • Cinetic Rights Management
  • 1 h 29 m

Summary Holy Rollers is inspired by actual events in the late nineties when Hasidic Jews were recruited as mules to smuggle ecstasy from Europe into the United States. Sam Gold, a young Hasid from an Orthodox Brooklyn community reluctantly follows the path his family has chosen for him, awaiting a pending arranged marriage and studying to become...

Directed By: Kevin Asch

Written By: Antonio Macia

  • 2010
  • R
  • Cinetic Rights Management
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2010
  • R
  • Cinetic Rights Management
  • 1 h 29 m

Holy Rollers

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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Summary Holy Rollers is inspired by actual events in the late nineties when Hasidic Jews were recruited as mules to smuggle ecstasy from Europe into the United States. Sam Gold, a young Hasid from an Orthodox Brooklyn community reluctantly follows the path his family has chosen for him, awaiting a pending arranged marriage and studying to become...

Directed By: Kevin Asch

Written By: Antonio Macia

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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Never quite catches fire, calling for more edge and narrative tension than director Kevin Asch and screenwriter Antonio Macia manage to deliver. Still, it's an often evocative dip into unique territory fleshed out by a highly convincing cast.
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60
As a portrait of a subculture few non-Hasidim ever get to glimpse, it's funny, deft, and sharp. The movie's first half goes to great trouble to establish the texture of life in Orthodox Jewish Brooklyn; the second half is a rushed and unfocused tour of the Amsterdam rave scene.
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60
It’s gratifying to see Eisenberg move past nerdy-cutie parts; his slim shoulders, it seems, are capable of handling more than Michael Cera’s leftovers.
By David Fear FULL REVIEW
50
Even the portrayal of the Hasidic community comes to feel like window-dressing, welcome for its exoticism but never truly understood.
By Ty Burr FULL REVIEW
50
A rare drug-crime movie devoid of violence, and pretty much anything in the way of excitement.
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW
50
Asch's first feature is intelligent, respectable yet curiously muted in tone and impact, never fully catching the viewer up in either its crime saga or its account of individual rebellion within an insular religious community.
By Justin Chang FULL REVIEW
40
The screenplay, by Antonio Macia, is earnest and unsurprising--not a good combination--and neither the director nor the star quite knows what to make of the quirky character inside the traditional garments that signal otherworldly innocence to customs agents.
By Joe Morgenstern FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Deerjen Films, Lookbook Films, Safehouse Pictures
Release Date May 21, 2010
Duration 1 h 29 m
Rating R
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Tagline In 1998, 1 million ecstasy pills were smuggled into the USA by a group of Hasidic Jews.
Website http://holyrollersfilm.com/
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Awards

Deauville Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Gotham Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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