The read
Scores higher than 78% of the 1,941 1990s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.
Ratings
IMDb7.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes86%
Metacritic68/100
94 audience votes
Key crew
- Barry LevinsonDirector
- Randy NewmanOriginal Music Composer
- Barry LevinsonWriter
Cast
- Armin Mueller-StahlSam Krichinsky
- Aidan QuinnJules Kaye
- Elizabeth PerkinsAnn Kaye
- Joan PlowrightEva Krichinsky
- Leo FuchsHymie Krichinsky
- Lou JacobiGabriel Krichynsky
- Eve GordonDottie Krik
- Kevin PollakIzzy Kirke
- Israel RubinekNathan Krichinsky
- Elijah WoodMichael Kaye
- Grant GeltTeddy Kirke
- Mindy Loren IsensteinMindy Kirk
Stills
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Themes
immigrantbaltimore, usarabbisynagoguebar mitzvahnostalgiasemi autobiographical1940s1910s