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Holy Rollers is a american film of genre Drama directed by Kevin Asch released in USA on 21 may 2010 with Jesse Eisenberg

Holy Rollers (2010)

Holy Rollers
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Released in USA 21 may 2010
Length 1h29
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Comedy-drama,    Crime
Rating58% 2.949972.949972.949972.949972.94997

Holy Rollers is a 2010 independent film written by Antonio Macia, directed by Kevin Asch, and starring Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Bartha, Ari Graynor, Danny Abeckaser, Q-Tip and Jason Fuchs. Holy Rollers is inspired by actual events in the late nineties when Hasidic Jews were recruited as mules to smuggle ecstasy from Europe into the United States.

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Sam Gold (Jesse Eisenberg), is a mild-mannered 20-year-old Orthodox Jewish man who lives with his large family in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn. Sam works in his father's fabric store while studying to be a rabbi. He and his family hope to arrange a marriage for him with Zeldy Lazar. However, Sam's family is much poorer than the Lazars, and he worries he will be unable to provide for them.

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