A Jewish comedy featuring Burstyn in a triple role. He plays the elderly grandfather who proposes to give his fortune to the first grandson who moves to Israel and marries a Jewish girl. The grandsons (also played by Burstyn) are opposites in temperament and personality. The timid one goes
to school in Yeshiva and hopes that the local Rabbi will arrange a decent match for him. The other brother is a non-religious musician involved in a romance with Rice-Davies, a singer who is not Jewish, but he plans to win the fortune anyhow. Aside from the ethnic idiosyncrasies, the material is
no different from standard screwball comedies and relies on the usual mistaken identi...
Released:
1976
Rated:
NR
Length:
90 mins