The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick

Sep 16, 1988

1h 35m

★ 5.5

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

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.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

Southgate Entertainment

ONF | NFB

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Cast

Maximilian Glick

Noam Zylberman

Celia Brzjinski

Fairuza Balk

Augustus Glick

Jan Rubeš

Bryna Glick

Susan Douglas

Rabbi Teitelman

Saul Rubinek

Henry Glick

Aaron Schwartz

Rabbi Kaminsky

William Marantz

Sarah Glick

Sharon Corder

Morris Moskover

Ken Zelig

Zelig Peikes

Howard Jerome

Sandy Lubchuk

Alec McClure

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