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Goodbye O Lord, I'm Going To America! - Hester Street
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Title: Hester Street

Release Date: 19 Oct 1975

Runtime: 1h 30m

Genre: Drama, Romance

Director: Midwest Films

Production Companies: Midwest Films

Overview: A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by other Jewish immigrants. When his wife finally arrives in the New World, however, she has a lot of assimilating to do.

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Average Vote: 6.2 (27 votes)

Cast

  • Jake: Steven Keats
  • Gitl: Carol Kane
  • Bernstein: Mel Howard
  • Mamie: Dorrie Kavanaugh
  • Mrs. Kavarsky: Doris Roberts
  • Joe Peltner: Stephen Strimpell
  • Fanny: Lauren Friedman
  • Joey: Paul Freedman
  • Boss: Martin Garner
  • Peddler: Leib Lensky
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