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Overview

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6.5/10   1,821 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Franz Lidz (book)
Richard LaGravenese (screenplay)
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Release Date:
15 September 1995 (USA) more
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Tagline:
Sometimes you find your heroes in the most unlikely places.
Plot:
Steven Lidz, unhappy with his home life since his mother got sick, goes and lives with his two crazy Uncles... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 2 nominations more
User Comments:
Love conquers all more (26 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Andie MacDowell ... Selma Lidz

John Turturro ... Sid Lidz

Michael Richards ... Danny Lidz
Maury Chaykin ... Arthur Lidz
Nathan Watt ... Steven / Franz Lidz

Anne De Salvo ... May
Celia Weston ... Amelia

Jack McGee ... Lindquist

Candice Azzara ... Joanie (as Candy Azzara)
Kendra Krull ... Sandy Lidz

Giuseppe Andrews ... Ash (as Joey Andrews)
Lillian Adams ... Aunt Estelle

Lou Cutell ... Uncle Melvin
Sumer Stamper ... Nancy Oppenheim
Sean P. Donahue ... Ralph Crispi (as Sean Donahue)
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Runtime:
93 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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Henry Winkler auditioned for the role of Danny Lidz. He arrived in character and in full costume. more
Quotes:
Sid Lidz: He doesn't know what he believes. My brothers filled him with all that junk.
[refering to his son reading the Torah]
Sid Lidz: .
Selma Lidz: Maybe they're right for once. What would you know? You work ten hours a day and then you lock yourself in that workshop. What do you know about the world? Maybe there is a God, or maybe some of us want to believe there is.
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Movie Connections:
References Fahrenheit 451 (1966) more
Soundtrack:
You Are My Sunshine more

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4 out of 4 people found the following comment useful.
Love conquers all, 16 June 2002
8/10
Author: ricrisci from New York

Very nice, touching movie. Made me cry. A story of a boy coming of age while dealing with a dying mother and rebelling against his father all in the context of a loving extended family. The (Jewish) cultural angle gave it authenticity. A fine performance by Nathan Watt but that John Turturro is really something. Michael Richards was essentially Kramer again. Interesting in that it is a woman director (Diane Keaton) who brings this story of male family love to the screen. While mom is very loving as well, she sadly and symbolically abandons Steven/Franz by dying and it is the weird (eccentric and harmlessly schizophrenic) uncles who support him thru it all, once again posing the question, "Who really are the crazy (or heroes, for that matter) among us?" I give it an 8.

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