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The Substance of Fire

09/11/1996

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1hr 42min

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Drama

Doing What Is Right... Could Cost Him Everything.

STORY

Isaac Geldhart is a Holocaust survivor who, overcome by grief at the recent death of his wife, seems determined to run his publishing firm into the ground by printing books that have no hope of financial success. His son Aaron, who also works at the company, grows frustrated with Isaac's emotional decline and attempts to take over the firm. The resulting crisis involves Isaac's other two children, his daughter Sarah and his dying son Martin.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Tony Goldwyn
  • Timothy Hutton
  • Ron Rifkin
  • Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Lee Grant

    Directors

  • Daniel J. Sullivan
  • Christine Gee

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Miramax

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Tony Goldwyn

Aaron Geldhart

Timothy Hutton

Martin Geldhart

Ron Rifkin

Isaac Geldhart

Sarah Jessica Parker

Sarah Geldhart

Lee Grant

Cora Cahn

Elizabeth Franz

Miss Barzakian

Benjamin Ungar

Young Issac

Roger Rees

Max

Viola Davis

Nurse

Debra Monk

Martha Hackett

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