Holy Rollers
Directed by Kevin Asch
2010, USA, 93 mins.
The title of this film does not refer to Pentecostal churchgoers. Rather, it refers to Hasidic Jews smuggling ecstasy during the late nineties. An unlikely story inspired by actual events (a market that Jesse Eisenberg, who plays Sam Gold, seems to have cornered), Holy Rollers is as much about pressure to succeed and build a family as it is about drugs.
Holy Rollers is an atypical drug movie. There are no car chases, no police investigations, no shooting, no envy of a high-roller lifestyle – few of the usual trappings of a drug film are present here. Rather, the film focuses on Sam, the eldest son in a Hasidim family, who is struggling not just to be successful, but to be more successful than his father. This is the motivation – not a glitzy, party-driven lifestyle – that drives the film. Family and identity play a greater role for Sam.
Directed by Kevin Asch
2010, USA, 93 mins.
The title of this film does not refer to Pentecostal churchgoers. Rather, it refers to Hasidic Jews smuggling ecstasy during the late nineties. An unlikely story inspired by actual events (a market that Jesse Eisenberg, who plays Sam Gold, seems to have cornered), Holy Rollers is as much about pressure to succeed and build a family as it is about drugs.
Holy Rollers is an atypical drug movie. There are no car chases, no police investigations, no shooting, no envy of a high-roller lifestyle – few of the usual trappings of a drug film are present here. Rather, the film focuses on Sam, the eldest son in a Hasidim family, who is struggling not just to be successful, but to be more successful than his father. This is the motivation – not a glitzy, party-driven lifestyle – that drives the film. Family and identity play a greater role for Sam.
- 5/6/2011
- by DaveRobson
- SoundOnSight
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