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- In the waning months of World War II, a man and his wife are mistakenly identified as Jews by their anti-Semitic Brooklyn neighbors. Suddenly the victims of religious and racial persecution, they find themselves aligned with a local Jewish immigrant in a struggle for dignity and survival.
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Summaries. In the waning months of World War II, a man and his wife are mistakenly identified as Jews by their anti-Semitic Brooklyn neighbors. Suddenly the victims of religious and racial persecution, they find themselves aligned with a local Jewish immigrant in a struggle for dignity and survival. — Anonymous. WWII.
Plot. In the waning months of World War II, Lawrence Newman is a mild-mannered, gentile man who works as a personnel manager and lives with his mother in Brooklyn. His next-door neighbor, Fred, is friendly to him but is also a member of an antisemitic group called the Union Crusaders, who blame Jews for the war.
In the waning months of World War II, a man and his wife are mistakenly identified as Jews by their anti-Semitic Brooklyn neighbors. Suddenly the victims of religious and racial persecution, they find themselves aligned with a local Jewish immigrant in a struggle for dignity and survival.
- (3.1K)
- Drama, Romance
- Neal Slavin
- 2002-05-02
Nov 9, 2001 · ‘Focus” is a parable about Lawrence Newman, a meek office manager who hasn’t had a day of trouble in his life until he gets a new pair of glasses and everyone, even his own mother, decides he ”looks Jewish.” In Brooklyn in 1944, even during a war against Nazism, anti-Semitism runs deep and help-wanted ads specify, ”Christians only.”
Focus: Directed by Neal Slavin. With William H. Macy, Laura Dern, David Paymer, Meat Loaf. In the waning months of World War II, a man and his wife are mistakenly identified as Jews by their anti-Semitic Brooklyn neighbors.
Lawrence Newman (William H. Macy) is an ordinary man who doesn't want to stand out in a dangerous world. Then, unassuming Newman and his sexy, outspoken newlywed wife...
- (81)
- Drama
- PG-13
Synopsis. Set in New York during the height of World War II, FOCUS recounts the unraveling of an American community when the identity of a man (William H. Macy) and his wife (Laura Dern) are mistaken.
