Movie Details

Title

The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick

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.

Runtime

1 h 35 min

Release Date

16 September 1988

Actors

Noam Zylberman, Fairuza Balk, Jan Rubeš, Susan Douglas Rubes, Saul Rubinek, Aaron Schwartz, William Marantz, Sharon Corder, Ken Zelig, Howard Jerome, Alec McClure

Certification

G

Genres

Drama, Comedy

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