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Yaniv

2024 · 85 min

A wry, warm-hearted caper that slowly tightens into a tense moral squeeze about bad bets and unlikely grace.

Directed by
Amnon Carmi
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Starring
Amnon Carmi, Ben Ducoff, Catherine Curtin
Overview
A high school teacher in the Bronx loses funding for the school musical and convinces his fellow statistics teacher—secretly a recovering gambling addict—to help him cheat at an underground card game run by the Hasidic Jewish community. The plan goes awry with mounting consequences, but help comes at an unexpected time from the least likely people.

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Directed by
Amnon Carmi
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Starring
Amnon Carmi, Ben Ducoff, Catherine Curtin
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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • addiction
  • friendship
  • faith
  • morality
  • redemption
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror1
Humour6
Realism7
Romance2
Tension6
Darkness5
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
comedy, drama
Directed by
Amnon Carmi
Written by
Amnon Carmi, Ben Ducoff
Starring
Amnon Carmi, Ben Ducoff, Catherine Curtin, Eli Boskey, Annabel Steven, Adam B. Shapiro, Rachel Luciani, Ben Salus
Cinematography
Dustin Ward
Runtime
85 min
Languages
English

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