The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
1988 · 95 MIN · IMDB 6.8 · 209 VOTES · DIR. Allan A. Goldstein
Overview
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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00:00:50 Boy: There is an old story about this Jewish guy
00:04:05 in an alien prison camp where he's being smothered
00:07:06 who worried about Joseph.
00:10:33 Well, what do we have here, a duet?
00:15:06 - Oh, Ma! - Bubbe, not again, please.
00:18:30 Is he Jewish?
00:23:10 Not yet, but with this four-handed thing?
00:26:33 I did, however, learn an important lesson
00:30:18 I'm going.
00:35:25 Well, I think that's enough for one day.
00:38:22 Oh.
00:42:02 I thought you hated me or something.
00:44:57 If I were to, you know, say, do something bad,
00:48:38 Now, Cohen got a telegram from his son.
00:51:31 Go and enjoy yourselves, enjoy the feast,
00:54:58 But you said that lubavitchers believed in joy.
00:59:02 I'm afraid I've got to stay here and take care of this.
01:04:09 I have to make lots of perogies for them.
01:08:47 Ferrante and Teicher had nothing to worry about.
01:12:35 I mean, look at what you did with your dreams.
01:18:34 Now here on page 37 in an article
01:21:53 I don't think my parents like it
01:25:22 What happened? Why is he playing?
01:29:37 The music is my gift!
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