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A Price Above Rubies (1998)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:15
Rotten:10
Average Rating:6/10
Synopsis: Free spirit Sonia longs to escape the restrictions of the community into which she was born--the tiny, hermetic cultural circle of the Brooklyn Hasidim--and rebels against her erudite but... Free spirit Sonia longs to escape the restrictions of the community into which she was born--the tiny, hermetic cultural circle of the Brooklyn Hasidim--and rebels against her erudite but emotionally cold arranged husband by initiating two affairs: one with his jeweler brother, and one with a Puerto Rican outsider whose experience of life is miles apart from hers. Less an exploration of the conflicts between Hasidic tradition and modernity than a standard story of self-realization. [More]
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Christopher Eccleston, Glenn Fitzgerald, Allen Payne
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Christopher Eccleston, Glenn Fitzgerald, Allen Payne, Julianna Margulies, Kathleen Chalfant, Edie Falco, John Randolph, Kim Hunter, Jackie Ryan, Shelton Dane
Director: Boaz Yakin
Director: Boaz Yakin
Screenwriter: Boaz Yakin
Producer: Lawrence Bender, John Penotti
Composer: Lesley Barber
Reviews for A Price Above Rubies
Yakin's argument is presented with such blind rage and fury that his little film goes from sensitive and perceptive to sensational and scandal-mongering very quickly
Yakin dares to not only enter that neighborhood, but to find beauty and sadness in it, rather than something alien or foreign.
Thanks to Boaz (Fresh) Yorkin, we now have Bye, Bye, Hasid or better yet Escape from the Tefillin.
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