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Actors: Renee Zellweger, Christopher Eccleston, Juliana Margulies
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about A Price Above Rubies |
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Sonia is a young wife in New York's Hasidic community. Her husband is a very devout Orthodox Jew whose shyness and sexual inhibitions are inadequate to Sonia's hunger for experience and life. His brother who gives Sonia a job in his jewelry business and uses her sexually is not the answer either. The film's title is taken from a psalm that refers to the value of a valorous woman, and it is a fine if somewhat unsubtle film. Zellweger is a marvel in the lead role of a woman bursting with life in a repressive subculture (much better than in her more famous appearances in "Jerry Maguire" or "Me, Myself & Irene"), and Eccleston is memorable in the rather one-dimensional, Mephistophelean role of the brother-in-law.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of A Price Above Rubies |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- seduction (yum!)
- inconveniently married while playing footsy
Polit/Social/Race/Gender activism
Yes
Plotlet:
- religious issues
Family, struggling with
Yes
Struggle with:
- In-laws
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
How much story is philosophy rather than plot?
- 2 (a little)
Ethnic/Regional/Gender story?
Yes
Culture clash?
- being oppressed by outside culture
Culture of surrounding area:
- Jewish
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- homemaker/wife
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey
Unclothed?
- Chest and Buttocks
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Jewish
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
How much in movie?
- 20%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Jewish
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- small businessman
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Jewish
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- thoughtful
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing nude male butt
- sex under blankets
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