The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick

The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick (1988)

When Max was born they cut off his .... It's 13 years later, 1960, his BarMitzvah, and they're still at it!

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.

star 5.5
  • Release Date: 1988-09-16
  • Runtime: 1h 35min
  • Director: Allan A. Goldstein

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Cast

  • Noam Zylberman

    Maximilian Glick

  • Fairuza Balk

    Celia Brzjinski

  • Jan Rubeš

    Augustus Glick

  • Susan Douglas

    Bryna Glick

  • Saul Rubinek

    Rabbi Teitelman

  • Aaron Schwartz

    Henry Glick

  • William Marantz

    Rabbi Kaminsky

  • Sharon Corder

    Sarah Glick

  • Ken Zelig

    Morris Moskover

  • Howard Jerome

    Zelig Peikes

  • Alec McClure

    Sandy Lubchuk

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