Snow in August / Showtime Entertainment ; produced by Jake Eberts and Lenny Young ; screenplay by Richard Friedenberg ; directed by Richard Friedenberg.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: SHO3066 | Showtime EntertainmentLanguage: English, Spanish Original language: English Subtitle language: English Publication details: [Place of publication not identified] : Showtime Networks, 2003.Description: 1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 193222811X
- 9781932228113
- Editor, Tatiana Riegel ; music, Peter Himmelman.
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Main Library | DVD | DRAMA Snow in | Checked out | 05/13/2024 | 33111009032372 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A boy learning the lessons of the Torah wonders if they can be used to avenge an attack on his best friend in this drama based on the novel by Pete Hamill. Michael (Peter Tambakis) is an 11-year-old boy growing up in an Irish Catholic neighborhood in Brooklyn in 1947. While looking for a place to get out of the weather in the midst of a freak snowstorm, Michael meets Judah Hirsch (Stephen Rea), a rabbi from Czechoslovakia, and the two become unlikely friends. Judah fascinates Michael with tales from Jewish folklore, and Michael gives Judah a crash course in the finer points of baseball. But not everyone in Michael's neighborhood is as open-minded as he is, and Judah is attacked by a gang of anti-Semitic toughs. As Judah's life lies in the balance, Michael wonders if Judah's tales of magic and mysticism might hold a key to getting justice for his friend. Snow in August also features Lolita Davidovich as Michael's mother. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
DVD, Region 1 encoding, mono., Dolby surround.
English or Spanish dialogue; Closed-captioned.
Title from disc.
Peter Tambakis, Stephen Rea, Lolita Davidovich.
Editor, Tatiana Riegel ; music, Peter Himmelman.
"From the best selling novel by Pete Hamill"--Cover.
TV rating: PD-M; for implied sex.
In the summer of 1947, the friendship of a young Catholic boy, Michael (Peter Tambakis) with a Czech rabbi (Stephen Rea) inspires the wrath of a local Irish street gang, a situation that boils over when Michael witnesses the vicious beating of a Jewish shopkeeper. Soon, Michael has lost his childhood best friends and is forced to turn for help to an ancient Jewish text with the power to summon a supernatural protector.
Special features: In-depth filmographies; extensive photo gallery; full screen format.