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Awake and Sing! (1972)

★ 10.0/10 95 min Drama United States English
Streaming: Not available

Description

The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depression, struggle through hard times and dream of a better future in this 1972 production of Clifford Odets' pungent play. Personalities and politics clash as Odets' mélange of characters try to survive on pennies a day. Walter Matthau plays cynical World War I amputee Moe Axelrod, and Leo Fuchs portrays the family's iron-willed leftist grandfather.

Top Cast

Walter Matthau
Walter Matthau Moe Axelrod
Ron Rifkin
Ron Rifkin Sam Feinschreiber
Felicia Farr
Felicia Farr Hennie
Martin Ritt
Martin Ritt Uncle Morty
Leo Fuchs
Leo Fuchs Jacob
Robert Lipton
Robert Lipton Ralph Berger
John Myhers
John Myhers Schlosser
Ruth Storey Bessie Berger

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