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Minyan

2020 · 119 min

A quiet, tender coming-of-age story that lingers on the ache of reconciling faith, family, and desire.

Directed by
Eric Steel
Genres
Drama
Starring
Samuel H. Levine, Ron Rifkin, Christopher McCann
Tagline
Wherever ten men gather in prayer, there the divine presence resides.
Overview
In a rapidly changing New York of the 1980s, a Russian Jewish teenager wrestles with his identity, faith, and sexuality, all of which seem irreconcilable until he befriends two closeted men in his grandfather's senior housing complex.

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Directed by
Eric Steel
Genres
Drama
Starring
Samuel H. Levine, Ron Rifkin, Christopher McCann
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • coming-of-age
  • faith
  • family
  • isolation
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour2
Realism8
Romance3
Tension4
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Genres
drama
Directed by
Eric Steel
Written by
Daniel Pearle, Eric Steel
Starring
Samuel H. Levine, Ron Rifkin, Christopher McCann, Richard Topol, Mark Margolis, Brooke Bloom, Alex Hurt, Carson Meyer
Cinematography
Ole Bratt Birkeland
Runtime
119 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
Yiddish, Russian, Hebrew, German, English

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