The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick (1988)

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The early 1960s: In preparation for his Bar Mitzvah, a Jewish boy, Max Glick (Noam Zylberman) from a small Manitoba community with an overbearing family tries to navigate his coming-of-age with his family's condescension and bigotry using his sarcastic, Jewish humour. The town's rabbi dies, and a sub-plot develops in which Max's father (Aaron Schwartz) and grandfather (Jan Rubes)-both synagogue leaders-are saddled with a traditional Hassidic rabbi who sticks out like a sore thumb among the otherwise assimilated Jewish community. To make matters more difficult, Max likes a Catholic girl (14 year old Fairuza Baulk in just her third film), whom he later competes with in a piano competition. The quirky, fun-loving rabbi tries to help him with his problems, yet harbours a secret ambition of his own. Filmed in Winnipeg and rural Beausejour, Manitoba, Canada.

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Director

Allan A. Goldstein

Stars

Noam Zylberman
Maximilian Glick

Fairuza Balk
Celia Brzjinski

Jan Rubeš
Augustus Glick

Firas Ibrahim

Susan Douglas Rubes
Bryna Glick

Saul Rubinek
Rabbi Teitelman

Aaron Schwartz
Henry Glick

William Marantz
Rabbi Kaminsky

Sharon Corder
Sarah Glick

Zina Parafi

Others...

Revenue

317.00

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Keywords

rural setting, rabbi, winter, canada, teenage romance, mine, prairie, piano lessons, bar mitvah, judaism, classical music, religious differences, christanity, manitoba

Production

National Film Board of Canada, Southgate Entertainment

Actor

Noam Zylberman, Fairuza Balk, Jan Rubeš, Firas Ibrahim, Susan Douglas Rubes, Saul Rubinek, Aaron Schwartz, William Marantz, Sharon Corder, Zina Parafi, Ken Zelig, Howard Jerome, Alec McClure, Mehyar Khaddour, Nazli Al Rawas, Salloum Haddad, Suzan Negm ElDein

Creators

Allan A. Goldstein (Director), Phil Savath (Writer), Ches Yetman (Executive In Charge Of Production), Othman Juha (Author), Moayad Nabulsi (Author)

Alternative titles

Bright Spark (AU)
La fugue de Maximilien Glick (CA)

Release dates

16.09.1988 (CA)
19.01.1990 (US)