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Jun 27, 2019 · Efrat Doer was born in Omer, in southern Israel, although she plays an American in “Holy Lands.” Even Tom Hollander, the film’s rabbi, had a father who was a Czech Jew, although he later converted and was raised Catholic. The best parts of the film, as many critics have echoed, come when Caan chats with one of his many pigs. Why pigs exactly?
Jun 25, 2019 · Efrat Dor was born in Omer, in southern Israel, although she plays an American in “Holy Lands.” Even Tom Hollander, the film’s rabbi, had a father who was a Czech Jew who later converted and ...
Jun 26, 2019 · That’s a quote that doubles well as the concept behind the movie “Holy Lands,” which stars Hollywood veteran James Caan as a relatively secular American Jew turned Israeli pig farmer. Skip ...
Jun 21, 2019 · There’s a lot going on in the unwieldy melodrama “Holy Lands,” including but not limited to the following characters and conflicts: 1. A cantankerous New York cardiologist (James Caan), who has abandoned his family to start a pig farm in—wait for it—Israel. 2. The unlikely friendship that develops between said pig farmer and the ...
Holy Lands: Directed by Amanda Sthers. With James Caan, Tom Hollander, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Efrat Dor. Harry Rosenmerck, an Ashkenazi Jewish American cardiologist, left everything to become a pig farmer in the Holy Land.
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Jun 28, 2019 · Couldn’t you play golf like everyone else?” The pigs are not just cute — they are symbolic of the unkosherness of Caan’s character. (Cinedigm) That’s a quote that doubles well as the concept behind the movie “Holy Lands,” which stars Hollywood veteran James Caan as a relatively secular American Jew turned Israeli pig farmer.
When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife Monica is trying to manage the lives of their adult children, Annabelle and David, as well as her own.
