The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick (1988)

Comedy Drama

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.

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1990-01-19

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canada winter mine piano lessons rabbi bar mitvah classical music prairie rural area judaism religious differences teenage romance christanity manitoba

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Runtime: 95 mins Revenue: $317 Rating: 6.0 Tag Line: When Max was born they cut off his .... It's 13 years later, 1960, his BarMitzvah, and they're still at it!

Cast

Fairuza Balk

Celia Brzjinski

Saul Rubinek

Rabbi Teitelman

Jan Rubeš

Augustus Glick

Alec McClure

Sandy Lubchuk

Noam Zylberman

Maximilian Glick

Susan Douglas Rubes

Bryna Glick

William Marantz

Rabbi Kaminsky

Howard Jerome

Zelig Peikes

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