Focus (2001 film)
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Directed by | Neal Slavin |
Produced by | Robert A. Miller, Michael R. Bloomberg, and Neal Slavin |
Written by | Arthur Miller (novel), |
Screenplay by | Kendrew Lascelles |
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Cinematography | Juan Ruiz Anchía |
Edited by | Tariq Anwar David B. Cohn |
Distributed by | Paramount Classics |
Release dates
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9 September 2001 |
Running time
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106 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $645,418[1] |
Focus is a 2001 film, starring William H. Macy, Laura Dern, David Paymer, and Meat Loaf based on a 1945 novel by playwright Arthur Miller.
Plot
In the waning months of World War II, a man is mistakenly identified as a Jew by his antisemitic Brooklyn neighbors. Suddenly the victims of religious and racial persecution, he finds himself aligned with a local Jewish immigrant in a struggle for dignity and survival.
Cast
- William H. Macy as Lawrence 'Larry' Newman
- Laura Dern as Gertrude 'Gert' Hart
- David Paymer as Mr. Finkelstein
- Meat Loaf as Fred (as Meat Loaf Aday)
- Kay Hawtrey as Mrs. Newman
- Michael Copeman as Carlson
- Kenneth Welsh as Father Crighton
- Joseph Ziegler as Mr. Garage
- Arlene Meadows as Mrs. Dewitt
- Peter Oldring as Willy Doyle
- Robert McCarrol as Meeting Hall Man (as Robert Mccarrol)
- Shaun Austin-Olsen as Sullivan
- Kevin Jubinville as Mr. Cole Stevens
- B.J. McQueen as Mel
- Conrad Bergschneider as Tough's Leader
Reception
Critical response
Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a rating of 56% based on 81 reviews, with the site's consensus "Though full of good intentions, Focus somehow feels dated, and pounds away its points with a heavy hand."[2]
References
- ↑ Focus (2001) – Box Office Mojo. Retrieved November 14, 2015.
- ↑ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/focus/
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Focus at IMDb
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Categories:
- English-language films
- 2001 films
- 2000s drama films
- American drama films
- Antisemitism in the United States
- Films about Jews and Judaism
- Films about race and ethnicity
- Films based on American novels
- Films set in Brooklyn
- Films set in the 1940s
- Films shot in Toronto
- Paramount Vantage films
- American films
- 2000s drama film stubs