Menashe Movie Information

Movie Information

Overall Rank: 5304

Average Rating: 3.3/4

# of Ratings: 3

Theatrical Release Date: 07/28/2017

Language: Yiddish

Genre: Drama

MPAA Rating: PG

Director: Joshua Z Weinstein

Actors: Menashe Lustig, Yoel Falkowitz

Plot: Inside an ultra-orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn, Menashe is widower and, based on that community, his son is given to his brother-in-law to be raised until he re-marries. But Menashe was unhappy with his first marriage, and doesn't find a connection with any of the women around him. While his brother-in-law berates him, and he struggles with a job he hates, he will not give up on his son. -- Chris Kavan

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3/4

Logan D. McCoy - wrote on 02/25/2024

Although set within a small and exclusive community, what it has to say is universal. That the importance of understanding and a parents' love for their child exists across all cultures.

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