Forced March

Despite capable performances and good direction by Rick King (HARD CHOICES), this behind-the-scenes drama suffers from an excess of thematic baggage in its attempts to come to grips with the Holocaust's meaning to its victims and their descendants. The film stars Chris Sarandon as Ben Kline, a Jew of Hungarian descent who is the star of a hit TV series. Ben's father, Richard (Josef Sommer), is a Holocaust survivor who has always refused to speak of his experiences and, especially, of the suffering of Ben's mother, a Catholic who was persecuted and died while Ben was still an infant. Ben has always been especially troubled by his father's silence, and also by the qu...