The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
When Max was born they cut off his .... It's 13 years later, 1960, his BarMitzvah, and they're still at it!
- Drama
- Comedy
Overview
The early 1960s: In preparation for his Bar Mitzvah, a Jewish boy, Max Glick (Noam Zylberman) from a small Manitoba community with an overbearing family tries to navigate his coming-of-age with his family's condescension and bigotry using his sarcastic, Jewish humour. The town's rabbi dies, and a sub-plot develops in which Max's father (Aaron Schwartz) and grandfather (Jan Rubes)-both synagogue leaders-are saddled with a traditional Hassidic rabbi who sticks out like a sore thumb among the otherwise assimilated Jewish community. To make matters more difficult, Max likes a Catholic girl (14 year old Fairuza Baulk in just her third film), whom he later competes with in a piano competition. The quirky, fun-loving rabbi tries to help him with his problems, yet harbours a secret ambition of his own. Filmed in Winnipeg and rural Beausejour, Manitoba, Canada.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 16, 1988
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Canada
- Production
- Southgate Entertainment,ONF,NFB,ONF | NFB
- Cast
- Ken Zelig,Jan Rubeš,Susan Douglas,Noam Zylberman,Fairuza Balk,Aaron Schwartz,Alec McClure,William Marantz,Sharon Corder,Saul Rubinekand 1 more
- Director
- Allan A. Goldstein
- Writer
- Phil Savath
- Producer
- Stephen Foster
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- $317
- IMDb
- tt0095806