Awake and Sing!

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1972 · 95 min · Drama · TMDB 10.0/10

Overview

The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depression, struggle through hard times and dream of a better future in this 1972 production of Clifford Odets' pungent play. Personalities and politics clash as Odets' mélange of characters try to survive on pennies a day. Walter Matthau plays cynical World War I amputee Moe Axelrod, and Leo Fuchs portrays the family's iron-willed leftist grandfather.

Directed by Norman Lloyd

Cast

• Walter Matthau — Moe Axelrod
• Ron Rifkin — Sam Feinschreiber
• Felicia Farr — Hennie
• Martin Ritt — Uncle Morty
• Leo Fuchs — Jacob