Trailer
Plot summary
Sam Gold is a twenty-year-old Hasidic man in Brooklyn. He shares a home with his parents and younger siblings, studies to become a rabbi, and works in the family fabric store in Manhattan. His friend and neighbor Leon Zimmerman studies with him. Sam wants to marry Zeldy Lazar and asks his family and temple leaders to begin the matchmaking process. The Lazars decide he is not a suitable match, and Sam blames the family's modest means. Leon's older brother Yosef, who appears to have money, offers Sam a job picking up medication in Europe for wealthy patients, and Sam accepts.
Cast
- Penny Bittoneas Ivan
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Holy Rollers (2010)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Jesse Eisenberg, who was raised in a secular Jewish household, prepared for the film by spending time at Lubavitch in Brooklyn, where he became bar mitzvah, and by reading books about Hasidic life.
- Actor Luzer Twersky publicly criticized the film, arguing its depiction of Hasidic Jews, such as the accents and traditions, was not accurate, and the film was also criticized for not hiring a Hasidic or ex-Hasidic consultant.
- Director Kevin Asch said he chose the title Holy Rollers to reference both the protagonist's religious character and the slang term "rolling", meaning to be high on ecstasy.
