IN THEATRES BEGINNING FEBRUARY 8
SYNOPSIS
Shmuel (Géza Röhrig), a Hasidic cantor in Upstate New York, distraught by the untimely death of his wife, struggles to find religious solace, while secretly obsessing over how her body will decay. As a clandestine partnership develops with Albert (Matthew Broderick), a local community college biology professor, the two embark on a darkly comic and increasingly literal undertaking into the underworld.
Theatrical Release Date: February 8, 2019
NOT YET RATED | 1H 32MIN
GENRE: DRAMA, COMEDY
DIRECTED BY
Shawn Snyder
WRITTEN BY
Jason Begue, Shawn Snyder
STARRING
Géza Röhrig
Matthew Broderick
SYNOPSIS
Shmuel (Géza Röhrig), a Hasidic cantor in Upstate New York, distraught by the untimely death of his wife, struggles to find religious solace, while secretly obsessing over how her body will decay. As a clandestine partnership develops with Albert (Matthew Broderick), a local community college biology professor, the two embark on a darkly comic and increasingly literal undertaking into the underworld.
DIRECTED BY
Shawn Snyder
WRITTEN BY
Jason Begue, Shawn Snyder
STARRING
Géza Röhrig
Matthew Broderick
“Shmuel and Albert may be the funniest odd couple since Broderick and Nathan Lane’s Leo Bloom and Max Bialystock.”
– Barbara Hoffman, NY Post
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