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The Jazz Singer

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The Jazz Singer
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PG,1hr 55min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1980
Director:
Richard Fleischer
Distributor:
Republic Pictures
Starring:
Neil Diamond, Laurence Olivier, Lucie Arnaz  ...more
Synopsis: Pop singer Neil Diamond stars in this ill-begotten second remake of Al Jolson's seminal 1927 musical The Jazz Singer. The moth-eaten story concerns a cantor's son who desires success as a pop singer, despite the wishes of his imperious father. The film takes place in the present day with Yussel Rabinowitz (Neil Diamond) playing a young (though middle-aged looking) cantor performing at the synagogue of his father (Laurence Olivier). Yussel is married and has settled down to a life of religious devotion ... Full Synopsis
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Craig Butler, AMG Review
An unnecessary remake of a film that has always been more important as history than as drama, 1980's The Jazz Singer is an embarrassing vanity project for a star that, at least onscreen, has little to be vain about. To start with the obvious first, Neil Diamond is at least a decade and a half too old for the role, a fact which immediately undercuts the believability of the story -- and this is a story ... Full Review
Featured Cast
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Neil Diamond
Yussel Rabinovitch
Laurence Olivier
Cantor Rabinovitch
Lucie Arnaz
Molly Bell
Catlin Adams
Rivka Rabinovitch
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