The Substance of Fire
Doing What Is Right... Could Cost Him Everything.
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- Drama
Overview
Isaac Geldhart is a Holocaust survivor who, overcome by grief at the recent death of his wife, seems determined to run his publishing firm into the ground by printing books that have no hope of financial success. His son Aaron, who also works at the company, grows frustrated with Isaac's emotional decline and attempts to take over the firm. The resulting crisis involves Isaac's other two children, his daughter Sarah and his dying son Martin.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 11, 1996
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Miramax
- Cast
- Tony Goldwyn,Timothy Hutton,Ron Rifkin,Sarah Jessica Parker,Lee Grant,Elizabeth Franz,Benjamin Ungar,Roger Rees,Viola Davis,Adolph Greenand 30 more
- Director
- Daniel J. Sullivan
- Writer
- Jon Robin Baitz
- Producer
- Ron Kastner,Randy Finch,Jon Robin Baitz
- Cinematography
- Robert D. Yeoman
- Music
- Joseph Vitarelli
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0117773