November 12, 2006
A movie equally depressing and amazing. Early Lumet is incredible.
Baruch Lumet, Brock Peters, Charles Dierkop
A lonely, old pawnbroker tries to hide his memories of the Holocaust by avoiding any intimate involvement with people and focusing his energies on making money with his shop. Soon, however, a Harlem g...( read more
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DVD Release Date: December 16, 2003
Stats: 98 reviews
Flixster Reviews (98)
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March 7, 2008An unusual and dark character study. Rod Steiger delivers a brilliant and self-contained performance.
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August 29, 2007Very strong movie - almost a great one. It treats the Holocaust at the level of the individual psyche, presenting a survivor and asking how much of him actually survived. I can see why Steiger's performance was so ballyhooed, but his effective underplaying is marred by a handfu...( read more)
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July 16, 2007I saw this years ago and it made a deep impression on me; a concentration camp survivor reun ites with his pain, over and over.
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