Holy Rollers is another look at the classic struggle to make one's own way in life. It was inspired by true events in the 1990s in New York, when orthodox Jews were acting as mules to smuggle the drug ecstasy into the US from Europe. However, the story line and characters are fictional. Introduced at the Sundance Film Festival early this year, it is now in the movie theaters and will come out on DVD in October 2010.
The hero is Sam Gold, a young Hasidic Jew growing up in Brooklyn and being trained as a rabbi. His father hopes to arrange a good match for him, one that will raise him above the poverty his family has known. As the boy grows older, he shows an aptitude for business which his family firmly discourages.
Sam is a young man nearing the future orchestrated by his family - becoming a Rabbi and marrying into a wealthy family that agrees to improve his fortunes for the honor of having a rabbi in the family. Sam, however, finds that he is more interested in the family business than in the continual study and devotion to religion that his life entails.
With his equally innocent friend, Sam unwittingly becomes a mule, for the medicine is actually the illegal street drug ecstasy. Once he realizes what is going on, he faces the choice of returning to his restricted and impoverished life of religious study or go willingly into the world of criminal drug dealers.
Sam begins to form new relationships with the drug underworld as he lives a double life. His business instincts prove valuable and are applauded by his Israeli dealer, and he is attracted by the man's troubled girl friend. Eventually Sam himself is recruiting the innocent and experimenting with the drug he smuggles.
Sam is unable to keep his clandestine activities from his family and his community. As the life of his childhood unravels, he becomes closer to the new people in his life, only to realize that they are embroiled in conflict and despair that he cannot resolve. His own conflict is whether to turn back to the old life or continue down a road he now knows leads to destruction.
The film shows both the deeply religious life of Hasidic Jews and the sleazy underworld of drug trafficking in America and Europe. Conflicts arise as Sam faces the failure of relationships he has grown up with and the futility of new ones he develops. The themes are the loss of innocence, the frustrations of coming of age, the temptations of the world, and the need to take a stand at the end. This is an intense and exciting thriller that is rated R.
The name of the drug is the key to the title of the film. This was a derisive term coined to describe pentecostal Christians who become ecstatic during worship, which is now sometimes used proudly by the very ones it was meant to mock. Users of the street drug seek to attain a state of euphoria by using an illegal chemical.
Holy Rollers, the movie, has had mixed reviews, but more people like it than don't. - 40727
The hero is Sam Gold, a young Hasidic Jew growing up in Brooklyn and being trained as a rabbi. His father hopes to arrange a good match for him, one that will raise him above the poverty his family has known. As the boy grows older, he shows an aptitude for business which his family firmly discourages.
Sam is a young man nearing the future orchestrated by his family - becoming a Rabbi and marrying into a wealthy family that agrees to improve his fortunes for the honor of having a rabbi in the family. Sam, however, finds that he is more interested in the family business than in the continual study and devotion to religion that his life entails.
With his equally innocent friend, Sam unwittingly becomes a mule, for the medicine is actually the illegal street drug ecstasy. Once he realizes what is going on, he faces the choice of returning to his restricted and impoverished life of religious study or go willingly into the world of criminal drug dealers.
Sam begins to form new relationships with the drug underworld as he lives a double life. His business instincts prove valuable and are applauded by his Israeli dealer, and he is attracted by the man's troubled girl friend. Eventually Sam himself is recruiting the innocent and experimenting with the drug he smuggles.
Sam is unable to keep his clandestine activities from his family and his community. As the life of his childhood unravels, he becomes closer to the new people in his life, only to realize that they are embroiled in conflict and despair that he cannot resolve. His own conflict is whether to turn back to the old life or continue down a road he now knows leads to destruction.
The film shows both the deeply religious life of Hasidic Jews and the sleazy underworld of drug trafficking in America and Europe. Conflicts arise as Sam faces the failure of relationships he has grown up with and the futility of new ones he develops. The themes are the loss of innocence, the frustrations of coming of age, the temptations of the world, and the need to take a stand at the end. This is an intense and exciting thriller that is rated R.
The name of the drug is the key to the title of the film. This was a derisive term coined to describe pentecostal Christians who become ecstatic during worship, which is now sometimes used proudly by the very ones it was meant to mock. Users of the street drug seek to attain a state of euphoria by using an illegal chemical.
Holy Rollers, the movie, has had mixed reviews, but more people like it than don't. - 40727
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