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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Lauren Ambrose | ... | Leah Lever | |
| Adam Kaufman | ... | Jake Lever | |
| Susie Essman | ... | Malka | |
| Harris Yulin | ... | Rabbi Belsky | |
| Natasha Lyonne | ... | Esther | |
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Christy Pusz | ... | Carol |
| Ricki Lake | ... | Rabbi Gerry | |
| Mercedes Ruehl | ... | Janice Lever | |
| Tonye Patano | ... | Emily | |
| Donnie Keshawarz | ... | Raj | |
| Sylvia Kauders | ... | Widow Goldfarb | |
| Jayne Houdyshell | ... | Mrs. Finkelman | |
| David Rossmer | ... | Rabbi Benjamin Lever | |
| Tibor Feldman | ... | Dr. Saloway | |
| Jolly Abraham | ... | Priya | |
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When his estranged brother dies suddenly, Jake Lever is confronted with an old Jewish custom. In days past, a man was expected to marry his deceased brother's childless widow, but it is now customary to perform a ceremony releasing the pair from the obligation. During the Halizah ceremony, Jake feels uncomfortable renouncing his brother's memory. Additionally, Leah wishes to escape the confines of her orthodox community and avoid her mother's matchmaking. On the spur of the moment, Leah and Jake decide to enter into a platonic marriage of convenience. Written by L. Hamre
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25 January 2009 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Written by Michael Bublé, Amy Foster-Gillies, and Alan Chang
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The film follows the Jewish traditions quite faithfully, but there's no mention of Kaddish - a prayer in affirming God in honor of the dead. See more »Goofs
Georgetown is in Washington, DC, not a separate city. See more »Soundtracks
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As I am a secular Israeli, I would be very interested in seeing this film.
Here, "halitza", as it's called, is nothing romantic and cute. There is no civil marriage, so if a Jewish widow wants to remarry, she MUST have it from her bro-in-law. This has been problematic when 1) the dead husband leaves a brother under the age of thirteen or 2) brother-in-law knows that charging her for doing giving it to her or 3) dead husbands family just wants to deny her the possibility of remarriage to be mean.
I know a fellow that wanted to marry a widow, but her late husbands family were asking for an astronomical price to set her free, so they went to Cyprus to marry.
We have the Hallmark channel, so I hope it eventually gets here.