The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick (1989)

Directors

Allan A. Goldstein

Cast

Aaron Schwartz, Fairuza Balk, Jan Rubeš, Nigel Bennett, Noam Zylberman, Saul Rubinek, Sharon Corder, Susan Douglas Rubes

The story

The early 1960s: In preparation for his Bar Mitzvah, a Jewish boy 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 humor. The town's rabbi dies, and a subplot develops in which Max's father and grandfather (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, with whom he later duets in a piano competition.

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