Synopsis
Shmuel, a Hasidic cantor in Upstate New York and distraught at the untimely death of his wife, struggles to find religious solace, while secretly obsessing over how her body will decay. As a clandestine partnership develops with Albert, a local community college biology professor, the two embark on a darkly comic and increasingly literal undertaking into the underworld.
Ratings
IMDb6/10
Rotten Tomatoes89%
Metacritic66/100
33 audience votes
Key crew
- Jason BegueWriter
- Shawn SnyderDirector
- Shawn SnyderWriter
- Ariel MarxOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Géza RöhrigShmuel
- Matthew BroderickAlbert
- Sammy VoitNaftali
- Leo HellerNoam
- Isabelle PhillipsShprintzel
- Sarah Jes AustellLab Receptionist
- Natalie CarterSecurity Guard
- Bern CohenReb Goshen
- Linda FrieserWake Goer
- Ben HammerRebbe
- Marceline HugotCarol
- Andrew Keenan-BolgerDoctor
Stills
Themes
dark comedygriefdeathhasidic judaism