Hester Street

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.

Casts: Steven Keats, Carol Kane, Mel Howard, Dorrie Kavanaugh, Doris Roberts, Stephen Strimpell, Lauren Friedman, Paul Freedman, Martin Garner, Leib Lensky, Zane Lasky
Director: Joan Micklin Silver
Countrys: USA

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Score Rating Count Release Date RunTime
7.0 1,059 1975-10-19 90