Awake and Sing! (1972)

• Drama

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.

Rating

10 / 10 (1 votes)

Release date

March 6, 1972

Runtime

1h 35m

Language

English

Director

Robert Hopkins, Norman Lloyd

Status

Released