Awake and Sing! (1972)
The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depression, struggle through hard times and dream of a better future in this 1972 production of Clifford Odets' pungent play. Personalities and politics clash as Odets' mélange of characters try to survive on pennies a day. Walter Matthau plays cynical World War I amputee Moe Axelrod, and Leo Fuchs portrays the family's iron-willed leftist grandfather.
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Stars:
- Norman Lloyd
- Robert Hopkins
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- Clifford Odets
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Release Date: 1972-06-03
- Country: US
- Language: English
- Runtime: 95
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Moe Axelrod
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