Holy Rollers is a new release of 2010 that is based on the participation of orthodox Jewish citizens of New York in the smuggling of ecstasy from Europe into the United States. With this true situation as a foundation, the film explores the involvement of a young Hasid named Sam Gold, a completely fictional character.
The main character is Sam Gold, a young Hasidic Jew who has been raised in Brooklyn in the orthodox tradition. Although his father is in business, Sam is destined to become a rabbi and make his fortune by marrying the daughter of a wealthy family in a match arranged by his father.
Sam is a young man nearing the future orchestrated by his family - becoming a Rabbi and marrying into a wealthy family that agrees to improve his fortunes for the honor of having a rabbi in the family. Sam, however, finds that he is more interested in the family business than in the continual study and devotion to religion that his life entails.
With his equally innocent friend, Sam unwittingly becomes a mule, for the medicine is actually the illegal street drug ecstasy. Once he realizes what is going on, he faces the choice of returning to his restricted and impoverished life of religious study or go willingly into the world of criminal drug dealers.
The Israeli dealer who is Sam's new boss recognizes the recruit's instinct for business, and the young man is soon rising up in the trade, eventually causing jealousy in other employees, recruiting others as innocent as he once was, and even trying ecstasy for himself. For a time he is able to lead a double life, but his family and his community finally act on their suspicions and turn against him.
Things are further complicated by Sam's infatuation with the dealer's girl friend, who he would like to save from her own addiction. As he learns that the relationships in his new life are either hopeless or dangerous, he begins to look for God in the middle ground between the unrealistic expectations of his youth and the wasteland of his present.
The decisions the maturing youth must make, and the dangers he faces as he does so, are the climax of this emotional thriller. It is rated R and has received both good and bad reviews in almost equal number; more of those who have seen it give it a thumbs up than the number of those who do not recommend it.
The title uses a term, once coined to be derisive, for pentecostal Christians who became 'carried away' or ecstatic during worship. The addicts in the movie are seeking a similar euphoria by means of an illegal street drug. The desire to change current reality of something better is true of both radically different processes.
Holy Rollers is an emotionally charged film starring Jesse Eisenberg as the boy who must become a man to escape the danger his innocence led him into and where his weaknesses entrap him. - 40732
The main character is Sam Gold, a young Hasidic Jew who has been raised in Brooklyn in the orthodox tradition. Although his father is in business, Sam is destined to become a rabbi and make his fortune by marrying the daughter of a wealthy family in a match arranged by his father.
Sam is a young man nearing the future orchestrated by his family - becoming a Rabbi and marrying into a wealthy family that agrees to improve his fortunes for the honor of having a rabbi in the family. Sam, however, finds that he is more interested in the family business than in the continual study and devotion to religion that his life entails.
With his equally innocent friend, Sam unwittingly becomes a mule, for the medicine is actually the illegal street drug ecstasy. Once he realizes what is going on, he faces the choice of returning to his restricted and impoverished life of religious study or go willingly into the world of criminal drug dealers.
The Israeli dealer who is Sam's new boss recognizes the recruit's instinct for business, and the young man is soon rising up in the trade, eventually causing jealousy in other employees, recruiting others as innocent as he once was, and even trying ecstasy for himself. For a time he is able to lead a double life, but his family and his community finally act on their suspicions and turn against him.
Things are further complicated by Sam's infatuation with the dealer's girl friend, who he would like to save from her own addiction. As he learns that the relationships in his new life are either hopeless or dangerous, he begins to look for God in the middle ground between the unrealistic expectations of his youth and the wasteland of his present.
The decisions the maturing youth must make, and the dangers he faces as he does so, are the climax of this emotional thriller. It is rated R and has received both good and bad reviews in almost equal number; more of those who have seen it give it a thumbs up than the number of those who do not recommend it.
The title uses a term, once coined to be derisive, for pentecostal Christians who became 'carried away' or ecstatic during worship. The addicts in the movie are seeking a similar euphoria by means of an illegal street drug. The desire to change current reality of something better is true of both radically different processes.
Holy Rollers is an emotionally charged film starring Jesse Eisenberg as the boy who must become a man to escape the danger his innocence led him into and where his weaknesses entrap him. - 40732
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