Hester Street

Nominee
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Academy Awards
Nominee
Best Adapted Screenplay
Writers Guild of America
An unconditionally happy achievement. The cast is superlative, and Carol Kane in the starring role is extraordinary...a triumphant bonfire.
-- New York Times

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Hester Street

A new 4K restoration from the original negative of Joan Micklin Silver's theatrical feature debut. Carol Kane (ANNIE HALL to UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT), in her Academy Award-nominated role, stars with Steven Keats (DEATH WISH, THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE) in this touching immigrant story of Gitl (Kane), a young Jewish woman who comes to America in the 1890’s with her son, only to discover that her husband Jake (Keats) has given up the ways of the old country and taken up with a new girlfriend and a new life. By turns heartbreaking, comic, and sharply observed, this is the film that launched Joan Micklin Silver’s (BETWEEN THE LINES, CROSSING DELANCEY) career.

"A charming, wonderfully human film about the agonies, traumas, and embarrassments of becoming an American, constructed with echoes of the honesty and warmth of feeling of Fellini's AMARCORD. It is an entrancing experience." - Kenneth Turan

"HESTER STREET is uproarious and exhilarating...reaffirms the human spirit and creates an uplift instead of a downdraft." - Los Angeles Times

PG
Genre
Drama, Women and Film, New York City, Jewish Culture, Romance
Web Site
https://www.imdb.c…
Runtime
90
Language
English, German, Yiddish
Director
Joan Micklin Silver
Writer(s)
Joan Micklin Silver
Cast
Carol Kane, Steven Keats, Mel Howard, Dorrie Kavanaugh, Doris Roberts
Awards:
Nominee, Best Actress in a Leading Role, Academy Awards
Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay, Writers Guild of America

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