About this title: 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 ...
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Format: DVD
Screen format: Full Screen
DVD region: 1
Studio: Showtime Ent
Date: 06/03/2003
UPC:758445306620
Description: Stephen Rea, Lolita Davidovich, Adam MacDonald, Jonathan Koensgen, Jase Blankfort. New. 2001 Run time: 105. Buy with confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! read more
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