Title: The Chosen
Release Date: 1981-08-01
Genres: Drama
High essence:
"In 1941, in Brooklyn, teenagers Reuven Malter (Barry Miller) and Danny Saunders (Robby Benson) are on opposite teams in a schoolyard softball game."Medium essence:
Dennis Schwartz:- Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz An engaging family drama religious film that explores the ideological differences between two teenage Jewish friends, one the son of a prominent Hassidic rabbi; the other the son of a prominent secular scholar, who is an orthodox Jewish Zionist.
- Director Jeremy Paul Kagan (The Big Fix/By the Sword/Heroes) and writer Edwin Gordon base it on the 1967 best-selling novel by Chaim Potok.
- In 1941, in Brooklyn, teenagers Reuven Malter (Barry Miller) and Danny Saunders (Robby Benson) are on opposite teams in a schoolyard softball game.
Low essence:
Dennis Schwartz:- Danny's father is the Hassidic Rebbe Saunders ( Rod Steiger ), who raises his son in silence to teach him humility and expects him to follow the families long tradition of being rabbis.
- Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz An engaging family drama religious film that explores the ideological differences between two teenage Jewish friends, one the son of a prominent Hassidic rabbi; the other the son of a prominent secular scholar, who is an orthodox Jewish Zionist.
- Director Jeremy Paul Kagan (The Big Fix/By the Sword/Heroes) and writer Edwin Gordon base it on the 1967 best-selling novel by Chaim Potok.
- It's a moving, well-acted and well-told offering on being Jewish in modern times and of the importance for Jews of Israel becoming a recognized country, but at times it was tedious and lacked dramatic moments.
- In 1941, in Brooklyn, teenagers Reuven Malter (Barry Miller) and Danny Saunders (Robby Benson) are on opposite teams in a schoolyard softball game.
- After a frosty start to their relationship, the two scholarly boys begin a hearelt friendship despite their differt upbringing.
Source:
http://www.sover.net/~ozus/chosen.html