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Manufacturer: Touchstone / Disney
Starring: Blythe Auffarth, Anne Bancroft, Stuart Blumberg, Catherine Lloyd Burns, Lisa Edelstein
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780788824142
Format: Color
ISBN: 0788824147
Label: Touchstone / Disney
Manufacturer: Touchstone / Disney
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Touchstone / Disney
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2000-10-17
Running Time: 128
Studio: Touchstone / Disney
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
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Editorial Reviews:
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Ben Stiller (THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS), Jenna Elfman (EdTV), and Edward Norton (FIGHT CLUB) star in KEEPING THE FAITH, a sexy romantic comedy so fresh and funny, you'll fall head over heels in love! Jake Schram (Stiller) and Brian Finn (Norton) are single, successful, extremely popular guys who have been best friends since, well, forever. They are about to be reunited with their other best childhood buddy -- the feisty, lanky tomboy, Anna (Elfman). Anna has grown into a high-powered workaholic beauty whose reentry into their lives turns this old circle of friends into a love triangle -- a very complicated one at that, because Jake's a rabbi and Brian is a priest. But have faith -- this gem is going to steal your heart.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: 3 stars out of 4
Comment: The Bottom Line:
Far too long, with many uneven patches, Keeping the Faith is a pleasing enough romantic comedy but not an especially good or memorable one.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Wit, hilarity, and romance meet
Comment: I'm a little slow to view this movie, but even 8 years after its release, it was one of the funnier movies I've seen in the past 8 years. It was witty, sweet, pensive, and all around 5 stars. The plot, lines, and acting were top notch. I am a fan of this movie and recommend it to anyone who wants to laugh, cry, think, and feel. The story of Jake the Rabbi (Ben Stiller) and Brian the Priest (Edward Norton) as they reunite with their childhood friend Anna (Jenna Elfman), the workaholic, is a perfect combination of faith-promoting anecdotes, new love antics, and lines that will keep your head rolling with laughter.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent Direction and Acting Can't Quite Save This Movie
Comment: PROS
Awesome Direction
Deft storytelling
Great Performances all Around (Norton is amazing in his role!)
CONS
Too Long
Muddy Ethical Sermonry
Jenna Elfman
Customer Rating:
Summary: for a realxing time
Comment: A bit unrealistic regarding the presentation of Judaism and Christianity in the movie. But a perfect story about three friends who finally come to terms with their relationships. A perfect love-story. THE urban romance-movie. A perfect Jenna Elfman.
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Summary: "It's complicated. I'm reading "Dianetics"."
Comment: KEEPING THE FAITH (2000), is a cinematic take on the old joke, "A priest and a rabbi meet this blonde coming down the street. . ." In this case, the blonde is Jenna Elfman (Anna), the priest is Edward Norton (Brian), and the rabbi is Ben Stiller (Jake), three childhood best friends.
KEEPING THE FAITH is very much about how religiously observant people balance the demands of the spiritual life against those of the temporal life; it's also about how people, observant or not, balance the demands of career against those of love and family; and last, but not least, it is about how people who love balance their self-expectations against the expectations they have of their significant others.
Brian and Jake are still best friends, dedicated to working together ecumenically, and dedicated to invigorating their congregants with a desire to become closer to God, sometimes with hilarious consequences.
Jake falls in love with Anna and Anna with Jake, but Jake can't reconcile the idea of a rabbi marrying a non-Jewish woman with the demands of his heart, and the expectations of his synagogue. While Jake struggles with this dilemma, Brian finds himself increasingly attracted to Anna (who loves, but is not in love, with him), and struggles with the demands of his heart versus his vows. When he realizes that Anna is in love with Jake, a crisis ensues.
Since Jake, Brian and Anna all fear confronting themselves and each other with these issues, their lifelong bond becomes strained and their love for each other is put to the test. In the end, all three discover, happily, that "keeping the faith" is in large part a question of having faith in each other.
KEEPING THE FAITH is a nice, fluffy film that showcases the talents of Elfman, Stiller and Norton well, and gives us New York City in summertime at its best.
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