VHS : Enemies, A Love Story
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starring: Elya Baskin, Henry Bronchtein, L.J. Dollinger, Gayle Garfinkle, Shelley Goldstein
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301682992
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6301682998
Label: Media Home Video
Manufacturer: Media Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 1990-07
Publisher: Media Home Video
Release Date: July 31, 1990
Running Time: 119 minutes
Sales Rank: 31132
Studio: Media Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 13, 1989
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Amazon.com essential video:
Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote often about despair and redemption, the subjects of his novel on which this Paul Mazursky film is based. Ron Silver plays a Holocaust survivor who has moved to America and married the Polish gentile who hid him from the Nazis. An intellectual, he is not satisfied with this simple peasant woman and so he has an affair with a sultry émigré (Lena Olin). His life is then made more complicated by the reappearance of his wife from the old country (Anjelica Huston), who he thought had died in the Nazi death camps. Mazursky and his terrific cast find the pain, irony, and sad humor in this material, capturing Singer's tone and bringing it to life. --Marshall Fine
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Enemies -Review
Great Movie - Set in post WW2 New York but highly relevant to todays age of complex relationships - deals with the classic problem of multiple relationships and provides deep psychological insights we can all relate to.
Rating: - Big Love Oy Vey!
I'm a regular reader of Roger Simon's Blog, a fellow political conservative. He has written fine screenplays and this adaptation was honored by the Academy. As many adaptations of complicated books, and in this case a book by a very complex writer, there's questions after the viewing. A story of Holocaust immigrants, simple enough: this writer-intellectual-Jew-survivor has too many wives. Then it might be a farce of embarrassing discovery and sneaking about. Since the wives and Ron Silver's character ... Read More
Rating:  - Making the Best of an Awful Situation
Life is not always fair. One must often play the cards they are dealt. The Nazis severely damaged the stable relationships of many European Jews. Herman Broder (Ron Silver) has emigrated to New York. His wife (Anjelica Huston) is presumed dead and he feels an obligation to serve as a husband to the woman (Margaret Sophie Stein) who previously was the family housekeeper. She is attractive enough and well meaning, but dumber than the proverbial door nail. Herman is also having a passionate affair with a woman ... Read More
Rating: - 4-Star Film, 2-Star Sound Transfer
As previous reviewers have stated, someone screwed up big-time with the sound mix on this DVD. If you're lucky, you can catch about every third line of dialogue - a real shame in the case of this darkly witty, Oscar-nominated film. Picture quality is absolutely gorgeous, which makes the sound muddle even more frustrating. (Unbelievable that no one involved has demanded a reissue in all the years since this DVD release.) Still, this wonderful film is worth the struggle - even if you have to resort to turning ... Read More
Rating:  - Long and Drawn Out
It's a hellish tale about a modern jobe from Bashevis Zinger's Novel. Herman Broder (Ron Silver) is a Polish Jew living in Coney Island after the Holocaust. It is 4 years after the end of WWII and he works as a writer and has a wife whom he wed because she protected him from the Nazis. Meanwhile, he's enjoying the company of another woman during 'business trips' when he finds out personally that his original wife thought to have been killed by Nazis is alive and in New York!! It sounds so absurd that you might think ... Read More
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