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Hester Street

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Hester Street	comment	Hester Street is a 1975 American independent drama film adapted from the 1896 novella Yekl by Abraham Cahan, written and directed by Joan Micklin Silver and starring Steven Keats and Carol Kane.Jake, formerly Yankel (Keats), is a Jewish immigrant to the Lower East Side who has assimilated to American culture and works at a factory. He begins a relationship with Mamie (Dorrie Kavanaugh), a Polish dance girl. Reality comes crashing down, however, when he loses his father, and he decides to bring his wife and child to New York.Jake's wife, Gitl (Kane), is a shy traditionalist who is unsure of her new life and her husband's changes. The household also has an extra member, Bernstein (Mel Howard), a bookish, similarly traditionalist workmate who Jake loves to tease, but when Mamie discovers Jake's family, it's only a matter of time before Gitl finds out and ends the marriage, leading to a happy ending for her.In spite of its low budget and niche subject matter, the film was a smash hit, earning $5 million at the box office, and Carol Kane received a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for her performance. Doris Roberts appears as Jake and Gitl's neighbor Mrs. Kavarsky.
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Hester Street / int_14a8974a	type	Love Potion
Hester Street / int_14a8974a	comment	Love Potion: Gitl tries to get one from a peddler.
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Hester Street / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Hester Street / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: While in the original story was focused more on Jake, Gitl and Joey appear a quarter of the way though, the movie has the pair appearing 10 minutes in with Gitl fleshed out.
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Hester Street / int_29ad1d69	type	Facial Dialogue
Hester Street / int_29ad1d69	comment	Facial Dialogue: Carol Kane as Gitl is visually expressive, like a silent movie actress, when she doesn’t speak, she is thinking and thus we see her at one moment sadder than the other interested.
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Hester Street / int_3ec27f76	type	Costume Porn
Hester Street / int_3ec27f76	comment	Costume Porn: Despite the characters being working class they dress well and it doesn’t matter that the film is black and white, the detail comes though.
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Hester Street / int_458c91d8	type	Your Tradition Is Not Mine
Hester Street / int_458c91d8	comment	Your Tradition Is Not Mine: Gitl still tries to follow her Eastern European self, she still gives Joey salt in his pockets and covers her hair, while she does Assimilated she is faithful to the old ways and ends the film with Bernstein another traditionalist.
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Hester Street / int_4715cf36	type	Friendship as Courtship
Hester Street / int_4715cf36	comment	Friendship as Courtship: Gitl and Bernstein no question.
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Hester Street / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Hester Street / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Poor Bernstein, everytime Jake needs to feel better he goes for him, he reveals to Gitl that he is faster than his bookish friend and he tells Bernstein to find a wife from the matchmaker, the fact the poor man takes it is why Gitl goes for him.
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Hester Street / int_4a5fcde	type	Adaptational Alternate Ending
Hester Street / int_4a5fcde	comment	Adaptational Alternate Ending: In the original 1896 novella Yekl, Jake and Gitl are divorced but while Gitl is going through all the emotions, she is crying in joy for her new start, but Jake while on the Streetcar with Mamie going to get married is unsure and is doubting his desires. The film has Jake and Mamie questioning their working to restore the cash they have lost, while Gitl has the last minutes with Bernstein and Joey talking about the shop they shall have.
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Hester Street / int_4e20ce40	type	Returning the Wedding Ring
Hester Street / int_4e20ce40	comment	Returning the Wedding Ring: The Get is done as a reverse wedding, there is a Rabbi with witnesses, the divorcing couple acknowledge that they came on their free will and Gitl removes her ring as Jake gives her the divorce document like a ring with vows. After which, Jake is free to marry straight away and Gitl has to wait about three months.
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Hester Street / int_4f41ac06	type	Hairstyle Malfunction
Hester Street / int_4f41ac06	comment	Hairstyle Malfunction: Coming home Jake is told by Kavarshy to go upstairs before the others, Gitl has curls, he snaps and pulls her hair only to painfully realize it’s not her Shitel.
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Hester Street / int_5b88d4c4	type	A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted
Hester Street / int_5b88d4c4	comment	A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted: Jake, he thinks he’s going to open a Dancing School with Mamie only for Gitl to take it as an agreement for the Get she and Bernstein will open a shop from it.
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Hester Street / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Hester Street / int_7130202a	comment	Jewish Mother: While Gitl isn't, Mrs. Kavarsky is; she is blunt, very protective of Gitl, and pokes her nose in everything in the nicest way possible.
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Hester Street / int_72246a54	type	Game Face
Hester Street / int_72246a54	comment	Game Face: Gitl when she is making a deal with Mamie’s Lawyer she does well from it.
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Hester Street / int_90dd217f	type	Little Known Facts
Hester Street / int_90dd217f	comment	Little Known Facts: This film displays plenty of these, the best of which is the Get, a traditional Jewish divorce, which is a surprise to non-Jewish people and the way it's presented is very simple.
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Hester Street / int_91e7082a	type	Remarried to the Mistress
Hester Street / int_91e7082a	comment	Remarried to the Mistress: Jake to Mamie and while they are poorer for it, they do plan to get back the money they lose to Gitl.
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Hester Street / int_98650fc7	type	Deconfirmed Bachelor
Hester Street / int_98650fc7	comment	Deconfirmed Bachelor: Bernstein he was about to pick up and leave when he confesses to Gitl his feelings and she symbolly returns his love by unpacking his books.
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Hester Street / int_99dfd4fc	type	Nothing Is the Same Anymore
Hester Street / int_99dfd4fc	comment	Nothing Is the Same Anymore: Poor Gitl suffers from this, but at least she gets through it.
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Hester Street / int_9fdb1baf	type	Cannot Talk to Women
Hester Street / int_9fdb1baf	comment	Cannot Talk to Women: Bernstein that’s why he’s single he’s shy and would rather hide his feelings in study. He admits to Git his lack of courage she helps him out.
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Hester Street / int_a91078ea	type	Adaptational Jerkass
Hester Street / int_a91078ea	comment	Adaptational Jerkass: Jake for sure, he mocks the idea of brain over brawn, he cuts Yossle’s Payiot much to the tearful pleas of Gitl, he forces her to call her son Joey and treats her poorly for wearing Sheitels and Headress and when confronted by Mrs Kavarsky refuses to take the blame.
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Hester Street / int_b1b83670	type	Oops! I Forgot I Was Married
Hester Street / int_b1b83670	comment	Oops! I Forgot I Was Married: Jake surprises Bernstein with it and Mamie finds out when she feels betrayed.
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Hester Street / int_b5dded87	type	Gossipy Hens
Hester Street / int_b5dded87	comment	Gossipy Hens: Mrs. Kavarsky and the Rabbi’s Wife, after the Get about Gitl's plans to marry Bernstein.
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Hester Street / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Hester Street / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Jake, when he sees Gitl's new hairdo. Mrs. Kavarsky can't understand why he would complain, but she realises it's about Mamie.
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Hester Street / int_c9c317cd	type	Last-Minute Hookup
Hester Street / int_c9c317cd	comment	Last-Minute Hookup: Jake goes to a prostitute, it’s clear she knows him and has been busy but she fits him in Her name in the credits is ‘’Fanny’’.
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Hester Street / int_d028ca10	type	Deliberately Monochrome
Hester Street / int_d028ca10	comment	Deliberately Monochrome: The film is shot in black and white.
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Hester Street / int_d60bc4a0	type	Longing Look
Hester Street / int_d60bc4a0	comment	Longing Look: There’s a couple, there’s Jake and Mamie, Gitl and Bernstein especially when at the picnic and Jake looks at Gitl at the Get.
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Hester Street / int_d777b649	type	No Doubt the Years Have Changed Me
Hester Street / int_d777b649	comment	No Doubt the Years Have Changed Me: At Ellis Island, Gitl is shocked at how Jake has changed his appearance and demeanor, shaving the beard he had and being harsh to his old country family.
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Hester Street / int_eab212a8	type	Period Piece
Hester Street / int_eab212a8	comment	Period Piece: For a low-budget film, the accuracy is amazing and the detail is almost a document for Jewish American immigrant life.
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Hester Street / int_fb5ab090	type	Loan Shark
Hester Street / int_fb5ab090	comment	Loan Shark: Mamie when she discovers that Jake used the money she loaned him to bring the family nobody knew, she threatens to expose the affair to Gitl of course it’s revealed by Jake’s friend she has plenty and does it to Jake out of love.
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Hester Street / int_fdb355db	type	Fun with Subtitles
Hester Street / int_fdb355db	comment	Fun with Subtitles: Since half of the movie is in Yiddish, it seems right that there are subtitles.
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