After several acclaimed documentaries including the excellent A LIFE APART: HASIDISM IN AMERICA and HIDING AND SEEKING: FAITH AND TOLERANCE AFTER THE HOLOCAUST, director Oren Rudavsky tries his hand at a fiction feature with this truncated but amiable adaptation of Daniel Menaker's 1998 novel.
Abandoned by his fatally ill mother as a child, estranged from his disapproving father as an adult, and recently dumped by his longtime girlfriend, Jake Singer (Chris Eigeman), an English teacher at Manhattan's elite Coventry School, now finds cold comfort on the couch of Dr. Ernesto Morales (Ian Holm), a dyspeptic, highly combative Catholic psychoanalyst from Argenti...
Released:
2006
Rated:
R
Length:
86 mins