Focus (film)

Focus (film)

Infobox Film
name = Focus


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director = Neal Slavin
producer = Robert A. Miller, Michael R. Bloomberg, and Neal Slavin
writer = Arthur Miller (novel), Kendrew Lascelles (screenplay)
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starring = William H. Macy, Laura Dern, David Paymer
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distributor = Paramount Classics
released = 2 May 2002
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country = United States
language = English
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"Focus" is a 2002 movie, starring William H. Macy, Laura Dern, and David Paymer based on a 1945 novel by playwright Arthur Miller.

Plot

In the waning months of World War II, a mild mannered businessman, Lawrence 'Larry' Newman (Macy) and his new wife, Gertrude 'Gert' Hart (Dern) are mistakenly identified as Jews by their anti-Semitic Brooklyn neighbors. Suddenly the victims of religious and racial persecution, they find themselves aligned with a local Jewish immigrant (Paymer) in a struggle for dignity and survival.

Cast

* William H. Macy ... Lawrence 'Larry' Newman
* Laura Dern ... Gertrude 'Gert' Hart
* David Paymer ... Mr. Finkelstein
* Meat Loaf ... Fred (as Meat Loaf Aday)
* Kay Hawtrey ... Mrs. Newman
* Michael Copeman ... Carlson
* Kenneth Welsh ... Father Crighton
* Joseph Ziegler ... Mr. Gargan
* Arlene Meadows ... Mrs. Dewitt
* Peter Oldring ... Willy Doyle
* Robert McCarrol ... Meeting Hall Man (as Robert Mccarrol)
* Shaun Austin-Olsen ... Sullivan
* Kevin Jubinville ... Mr. Cole Stevens
* B.J. McQueen ... Mel
* Conrad Bergschneider ... Tough's Leader

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