Released Date:
1989-12-13
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, Canada
Runtime:
119 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (1599 Reviews)
Director:
Paul MazurskyIsaac Bashevis Singer (novel)
Roger L. Simon (screenplay)
Paul Mazursky (screenplay)
Set in 1949 New York, a Holocaust survivor who makes a living as a ghostwriter for a Jewish rabbi, finds himself involved with three women - his current wife, a passionate affair with a married woman, and his long-vanished wife whom he thought was killed during the war and suddenly reappears. The film concentrates on the views of the Jewish survivors, who no longer abide by religious morales and question a God who could let the Holocaust occur.
Released Date:
1991-02-03
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
98 min
Rated:
G
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (1456 Reviews)
Director:
Glenn JordanPatricia MacLachlan (book)
Patricia MacLachlan (teleplay)
Carol Sobieski (teleplay)
Set around the turn of the century. Jacob, a widowed farmer with two small children, places an ad in a paper for a new wife. The ad is answered by a spinster in Maine, who writes letters to them and describes herself as "plain and tall." And she takes a trip to Jacob's farm to see if she can make a difference.
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