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Hester Street (1975)
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24 August 1976 (Sweden)
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New York City
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Jewish History
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Jewish
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Divorce
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1900s
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Nominated for Oscar.
Another 1 win
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1 nomination
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Nice and quaint.
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Carol Kane | ... | Gitl |
 | Steven Keats | ... | Jake |
| Mel Howard | ... | Bernstein |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Anna Berger | ... | Poultry Woman |
| Ed Crowley | ... | Inspector (as Edward Crowley) |
| Paul Freedman | ... | Joey |
| Sol Frieder | ... | Scribe |
| Lauren Frost | ... | Fanny |
| Martin Garner | ... | Boss |
| Dorrie Kavanaugh | ... | Mamie |
| Zane Lasky | ... | Greenhorn (as Zane Laski) |
 | Mordecai Lawner | ... | Waiter |
| Leib Lensky | ... | Peddler |
| Robert Lesser | ... | Lawyer |
| Eda Reiss Merin | ... | Rabbi's Wife |
| Joanna Merlin | ... | Jake's Landlady |
 | Doris Roberts | ... | Mrs. Kavarsky |
| Bert Salzman | ... | Zalman |
| Zvee Scooler | ... | Rabbi |
 | Lin Shaye | ... | Whore |
| Claudia Silver | ... | Feigie |
| Philip Sterling | ... | Mr. Lipman |
| Stephen Strimpell | ... | Joe Peltner |
| Joel Wolfe | ... | Kaminsky |
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90 min
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1.78 : 1 more
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Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Raquel Welch/Phoebe Snow, John Sebastian (#1.18)" (1976)
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With its black-and-white cinematography, soundtrack music, and Jewish characters, this film at times reminded me superficially of a Woody Allen movie. But writer/director Joan Micklin Silver made an original film here. If you like a movie that immerses you in a less-familiar culture you might give 'Hester Street' a try.
Steven Keats plays a Russian emigre who prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by other Jewish immigrants. When his wife (Carol Kane) finally arrives in the New World, however, she has a lot of assimilating to do. This causes the tension which drives the movie along, though it maintains a fairly light atmosphere most of the time.
Keats and Kane do fine jobs in their roles; in fact, Kane was nominated for an Academy Award. Dorrie Kavanaugh and Doris Roberts are among the good supporting cast.