Awake and Sing!

Awake and Sing! (1972)

10.0 95 min Movie
Drama

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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Cast

Walter Matthau Walter Matthau Moe Axelrod
Ron Rifkin Ron Rifkin Sam Feinschreiber
Felicia Farr Felicia Farr Hennie
Martin Ritt Martin Ritt Uncle Morty
Leo Fuchs Leo Fuchs Jacob
Robert Lipton Robert Lipton Ralph Berger
John Myhers John Myhers Schlosser
Ruth Storey Ruth Storey Bessie Berger

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