Sister will partner with Taffy Brodesser-Akner on “The Get,” a feature film based on Matt Shaer’s GQ piece “The Orthodox Hit Squad.”
Brodesser-Akner, best known for her New York Times Magazine profiles of the likes of Val Kilmer to Bradley Cooper along with her best-seller “Fleishman Is in Trouble,” will write the screenplay.
“The Get” unfolds in New York and New Jersey’s ultra-orthodox communities. It follows one notorious rabbi, Mendel Epstein, who was sought for help in managing the worst divorce cases, where husbands exploited Jewish law to deny their wives freedom from miserable marriages. The help he provided included beatings, open graves and cattle prods to the testicles — and it worked, but it also showed how a noble goal can sometimes only be accomplished by the most unconscionable of methods.
Sister is a new entertainment company founded by Elisabeth Murdoch, along with Sister Global CEO and head of Sister LA,...
Brodesser-Akner, best known for her New York Times Magazine profiles of the likes of Val Kilmer to Bradley Cooper along with her best-seller “Fleishman Is in Trouble,” will write the screenplay.
“The Get” unfolds in New York and New Jersey’s ultra-orthodox communities. It follows one notorious rabbi, Mendel Epstein, who was sought for help in managing the worst divorce cases, where husbands exploited Jewish law to deny their wives freedom from miserable marriages. The help he provided included beatings, open graves and cattle prods to the testicles — and it worked, but it also showed how a noble goal can sometimes only be accomplished by the most unconscionable of methods.
Sister is a new entertainment company founded by Elisabeth Murdoch, along with Sister Global CEO and head of Sister LA,...
- 9/17/2020
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
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