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The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick

16 Sep 1988
95 min
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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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Fairuza Balk

Celia Brzjinski

Saul Rubinek

Rabbi Teitelman

Jan Rubeš

Augustus Glick

Howard Jerome

Zelig Peikes

Alec McClure

Sandy Lubchuk

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Susan Douglas

Bryna Glick

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Noam Zylberman

Maximilian Glick

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Sharon Corder

Sarah Glick

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Aaron Schwartz

Henry Glick

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