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Focus is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 19 october 2001 with William H. Macy
Focus (2001)
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Add to a movie listFocus is a 2001 film, starring William H. Macy, Laura Dern, David Paymer, and Meat Loaf based on a 1945 novel by playwright Arthur Miller.
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In the waning months of World War II, a man is mistakenly identified as a Jew by his antisemitic Brooklyn neighbors. Suddenly the victims of religious and racial persecution, he finds himself aligned with a local Jewish immigrant in a struggle for dignity and survival.Actors
William H. Macy
(Lawrence 'Larry' Newman)
Laura Dern
(Gertrude 'Gert' Hart)
David Paymer
(Mr. Finkelstein)
Meat Loaf
(Fred)
Kenneth Welsh
(Father Crighton)
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