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  • 2005
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2005
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 29 m

Summary For years, friends and actors Maurice, Sami, Simon, Elie, and Edouard have been waiting for their big break. The future looks bright when famous American director Rudolph Grichenberg (Coyote) offers Maurice the part of Shylock in his Yiddish screen adaptation of "The Merchant of Venice". But his fortunes reverse quickly when Maurice lear...

Directed By: Steve Suissa

Written By: Daniel Cohen, Daniel Goldenberg, Sophie Tepper, Steve Suissa

  • 2005
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2005
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 29 m

The Great Role

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Summary For years, friends and actors Maurice, Sami, Simon, Elie, and Edouard have been waiting for their big break. The future looks bright when famous American director Rudolph Grichenberg (Coyote) offers Maurice the part of Shylock in his Yiddish screen adaptation of "The Merchant of Venice". But his fortunes reverse quickly when Maurice lear...

Directed By: Steve Suissa

Written By: Daniel Cohen, Daniel Goldenberg, Sophie Tepper, Steve Suissa

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
43
30% Positive
3 Reviews
30% Mixed
3 Reviews
40% Negative
4 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
43
30% Positive
3 Reviews
30% Mixed
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40% Negative
4 Reviews

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75
A comedy about friendship, faith and the acting life, Le Grand Role is unabashedly corny and tear-jerking - and still quite likable.
By Steven Rea FULL REVIEW
70
Predictable yet charming, The Grand Role is a crowd-pleasing dramatic comedy about love, friendship, role-playing and Jewish pride.
By Eddie Cockrell FULL REVIEW
60
Mr. Coyote, who appears to be playing Steven Spielberg and steals every scene he is in.
By Anita Gates FULL REVIEW
40
A short and soppy story that Coyote lends some dignity, but not much power.
By Tasha Robinson FULL REVIEW
38
Director and co-writer Steve Suissa misses every opportunity to go deeper, either for laughs or pathos.
By Jami Bernard FULL REVIEW
30
Half a notch above a vanity project, this chipper little number by French director Steve Suissa offers a deadly combination of shamelessness, narcissism and schoolboy comedy.
By Ella Taylor FULL REVIEW
30
Chuckle-worthy jabs at American cultural imperialism aside, Le Grand Rôle has little to offer except a maudlin love story that ironically feels like a Tinseltown tearjerker facsimile.
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Production Company 7IA, Canal+, Caroline Productions, Egérie Productions, La Région Île-de-France, Les Films Alain Sarde, Les Films de l'Espoir
Release Date May 6, 2005
Duration 1 h 29 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.sap11.com/grandrole/
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Awards

Paris Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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