Awake and Sing!
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.
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- Cast:
- Walter Matthau , Ron Rifkin , Felicia Farr , Martin Ritt , Robert Lipton , John Myhers
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Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .
Good concept, poorly executed.
The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.