Hester Street (1975)
A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by other Jewish immigrants. When his wife finally arrives in the New World, however, she has a lot of assimilating to do.
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Steven KeatsJake
Carol KaneGitl
Doris RobertsMrs. KavarskyMel HowardBernstein
Joanna MerlinJake's LandladyDorrie KavanaughMamie
Stephen StrimpellJoe Peltner
Lauren FriedmanFannyLauren FrostFanny
Philip SterlingMr. LipmanPaul FreedmanJoey
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A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by other Jewish immigrants. When his wife finally arrives in the New World, however, she has a lot of assimilating to do.
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Hester Street has a runtime of 90 minutes.
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