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Holy Rollers Is A Film That Is Based On A True Story
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.
Introduced at the Sundance Film Festival in January, the movie is a psychological thriller rated R. It is in theaters over the summer and will be available on DVD in October. It has had mixed reviews, but more patrons recommend it than not.
As Sam gets older and nearer to his fate, he begins to chafe at the restraints imposed on him by his family’s expectations. Sam has a talent for business and sees ways that the family fortunes could improve, but his father refuses to allow him to take an active part in commerce, urging him to devote himself to the study of the Torah. Sam, however, is beginning to realize that he may not be rabbi material, and is unsettled enough to recruited by the older brother of a friend to make money by bringing ‘medicine’ into the US from Europe.
Although his friend recoils from the truth that they have been used as mules for the drug dealers, and the ‘medicine’ is actually an illegal chemical, Sam has been intrigued by the glimpses he has gotten of a totally different world. One boy goes back to rabbinical studies, while the other goes on with the smuggling.
The Israeli dealer who is Sam’s new boss recognizes the recruit’s instinct for business, and the young man is soon rising up in the trade, eventually causing jealousy in other employees, recruiting others as innocent as he once was, and even trying ecstasy for himself. For a time he is able to lead a double life, but his family and his community finally act on their suspicions and turn against him.
As things begin to unravel for Sam in both his lives, he learns that there is a middle ground between religiosity and depravity where God may be found. He ends up on the run, struggling with a decision that will hurt many of the people he has tried to love.
Sam, struggling to find God on the middle ground between the temptations of the world and the straitjacket of his old life, is soon on the run, trying to decide which way to go in the future. No matter how he acts, he will hurt others in his life if he wants to save his own.
The title is ironic. The original holy rollers were pentecostal Christians who found ecstasy in worship. The Hasidic Jews of the 1990s, who made perfect mules because they seemed to be above suspicion, were bringing in a drug that supposedly allowed people find the same euphoria in a chemical.
Holy Rollers the movie stars Jesse Eisenberg as the troubled young Jew learning to make his own choices and control his own future.
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