A Price Above Rubies

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By R.C. on Saturday, July 3, 1999 - 04:41 am:

    A good movie for anyone who has wrestled w/what it means to grow up as part of a very specific community that you've never felt you belonged to. Boaz Yakin captures Hasidic Jewish life in a realistic, unsentimental fashion. (Altho' the affair btwn Zellweger's character & her brother-in-law made no sense from minute one. It seemed like nothing but a plot device to me.)

    It portrays how pious people who devote themselves to God can make life very unhappy for the people who live w/them. Plus it features the very yummy Allen Payne/who doesn't work as much as he shd. Which was nice -- you never see Orthodox Jews realting to anyone outside of their own culture in the movies.

    I liked this one a lot. I think I'll watch it again over the wknd.

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