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Advice and Dissent

Advice and Dissent

2002Short⏱️ 21m
ComedyShort
6.9
IMDB Rating
36 votes

A frustrated businessman, Jeffrey Goldman tries to end his hopeless marriage to wife, Ellen by asking his local Rabbi to place a curse on her. The rabbi refuses, but gives Goldman peculiar advice on how to do away with her, settin...

Director
Leib Cohen
Writers
N/A
Stars
Rebecca Pidgeon, John Pankow, Eli Wallach
Release Date
June 30, 2002
Language
English
Country
United States
💬 2
Reviews
📽️ View on IMDB

🎭 Top Cast

Rebecca Pidgeon
Rebecca Pidgeon
as Ellen Goldman
John Pankow
John Pankow
as Jeffrey Goldman
Eli Wallach
Eli Wallach
as The Rebbe
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Reuven Russell
as Rabbi Weintraub
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Sean Conant
as Accident Bystander
James DeVoy
James DeVoy
as Police Officer
Susan Gross
Susan Gross
as Accident Bystander
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Ben Small
as Fireman
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Eric Waldo
as Accident Bystander

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
2.35 : 1
Sound
Dolby Digital
Filming Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Production
Film Shack, Leibco Films Inc.

🏷️ Keywords

cursemarriagejewishlovemurder

🎯 Categories

ComedyShort

⭐ Featured Review

A gem...
by JasparLamarCrabb2002-03-30
10/10

"A small gem from first time director Leib Cohen. John Pankow is a louse of a husband trying to unload wife Rebecca Pidgeon. He goes to his Rabbi (the great Eli Wallach) for help. Wallach obliges (or does he?) A short film with the the depth of a feature. First rate acting and extremely clever dialogue establish characters in an instant. The production values are first-rate never revealing the film's shoe-string budget. A very entertaining twenty minutes...."

📖 Synopsis

A frustrated businessman, Jeffrey Goldman tries to end his hopeless marriage to wife, Ellen by asking his local Rabbi to place a curse on her. The rabbi refuses, but gives Goldman peculiar advice on how to do away with her, settin...