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Actors: Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett, Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Harry Dean Stanton
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Man Who Cried |
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As a young Jewish girl in Russia, Fegele Abramowitz's father leaves her with relatives to go to America. Her grandmother sends her away as the progroms start, telling her to find her father. She ends up on a ship to England, where she is renamed Suzie and adopted. An exquisit singer, Suzie manages to get a job in her early teens with a chorus line and movies to Paris. In Paris, she shares an apartment with her coworker and friend, Lola, and they both fall in love, Lola with opera singer Dante Dominio, and Suzie with a gypsy horse trainer named Ceasar. Only three people know that Suzie is Jewish, and as the Great War moves into France, one of them leaks her secret. Suzie and Lola depart for America, where Suzie can finally find her father.
--Ariana, Resident Scholar
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In the 1920's a Jewish father named Perlman (Stanton) and his daughter are tearfully separated when he leaves for America to a better life. Shortly after her mother sends her fleeing a Russian pogrom in the 1920's. Young Fegele (Ricci) sailing for America instead lands in England and is raised as Suzie by kind but distant adoptive parents. Growing to adulthood, she hopes to find her lost father and sets off for Paris to raise money for her passage to the U.S. There she befriends Lola (Blanchett), a pretty Russian singer with a cabaret. Lola introduces her to opera star Dante Dominio (Turturro).
Suzie and Lola are singing in the chorus of the cabaret show together as well as sharing a room. The two women grow distant as Lola vigorously pursues wealthy Dominio, who proves to be a vocal anti-semite. As the Nazi occupation of Paris draws nearer life there becomes very strained with Suzie trying to hide her identity for fear of capture. Into Suzie's empty life rides Cesar (Depp), a painfully quiet gypsy horseman, whom she falls in love with. The two find intimacy and kinship as outcasts. Suzie and Lola mend their broken friendship.
--David Fletcher, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1930's-1950's
War impact on civilians/veterans
Yes
Kind of conflict:
- holocaust
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- singer/musician
- dancer
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- (woman) ample bosom & buttocks
- (woman) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Jewish
- Russian
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey
- (woman) long curly
Body type
- (woman) ample bosom & buttocks
- (woman) average
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Russian
Main Adversary
Identity:
- an organization
- general circumstances
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
- France
Asia/Pacific/Middle East
Yes
Asian country:
- Russia
Misc setting
- theater
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- depressed/sad
- frustrated
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude male butt
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If lots of song/dance...
- lot of singing
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
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