Hester Street

1975 · 90 MIN · IMDB 7.0 · 2,157 VOTES · DIR. Joan Micklin Silver

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Overview

A Russian emigre 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 finally arrives in the New World, however, she has a lot of assimilating to do.

Dialogue Timeline — 661 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:13 §
00:04:14 What'll it be?
00:06:27 What about Fanny? Fanny?
00:09:32 Give a guess what I was.
00:12:37 It come this morning so I keep for you.
00:15:34 Well, well, well!
00:17:28 Come upstairs.
00:28:42 Look at him. A little Yankee.
00:35:52 Stove. Stove. Stove.
00:39:14 Never mind. She'll soon"oysgreen" herself.
00:41:48 Good-bye, Mrs. Podkovnik.
00:49:29 Why should I bother myself?
00:51:30 Here, like that.
00:55:57 Mr. Bernstein
00:58:43 When I finish work, and I come home
01:00:46 If your wife is such a wonder, how is it you're sittin' here?
01:04:14 Just by what you see, what do you say?
01:08:31 Yankel!
01:10:54 Never! Never! Go. Who knows what you do! Maybe kill her.
01:13:34 Ach.
01:16:37 May you have a boy of your own one day.
01:24:29 She could marry tomorrow, but she will wait 91 days.
01:26:57 You think I can learn to sell groceries?
01:27:24 So we mustn't be too quick to say this or that.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed661
Dialogue density7.3 lines / min
First line00:00:13
Final line01:27:24

Production Record

DirectorJoan Micklin Silver
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes2,157