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The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick

09/16/1988

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1hr 35min

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Drama

,Comedy

When Max was born they cut off his .... It's 13 years later, 1960, his BarMitzvah, and they're still at it!

STORY

The early 1960s: In preparation for his Bar Mitzvah, a Jewish boy, Max Glick (Noam Zylberman) from a small Manitoba community with an overbearing family tries to navigate his coming-of-age with his family's condescension and bigotry using his sarcastic, Jewish humour. The town's rabbi dies, and a sub-plot develops in which Max's father (Aaron Schwartz) and grandfather (Jan Rubes)-both synagogue leaders-are saddled with a traditional Hassidic rabbi who sticks out like a sore thumb among the otherwise assimilated Jewish community. To make matters more difficult, Max likes a Catholic girl (14 year old Fairuza Baulk in just her third film), whom he later competes with in a piano competition. The quirky, fun-loving rabbi tries to help him with his problems, yet harbours a secret ambition of his own. Filmed in Winnipeg and rural Beausejour, Manitoba, Canada.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Noam Zylberman
  • Fairuza Balk
  • Jan Rubeš
  • Susan Douglas
  • Saul Rubinek

    Director

  • Allan A. Goldstein

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Southgate Entertainment
  • ONF | NFB

    Production Countries

  • Canada

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Noam Zylberman

Maximilian Glick

Fairuza Balk

Celia Brzjinski

Jan Rubeš

Augustus Glick

Susan Douglas

Bryna Glick

Saul Rubinek

Rabbi Teitelman

Aaron Schwartz

Henry Glick

William Marantz

Rabbi Kaminsky

Sharon Corder

Sarah Glick

Ken Zelig

Morris Moskover

Howard Jerome

Zelig Peikes

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