The Substance of Fire

(1996)

★ 6.4 IMDb · 7 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1996

Runtime: 102 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Daniel J. Sullivan

Cast: Тони Голдуин, Тимоти Хаттон, Рон Рифкин, Сара Джессика Паркер, Lee Grant, Elizabeth Franz, Benjamin Ungar, Роджер Рис, Виола Дэвис, Adolph Green

Plot

Isaac Geldhart is a Holocaust survivor who, overcome by grief at the recent death of his wife, seems determined to run his publishing firm into the ground by printing books that have no hope of financial success. His son Aaron, who also works at the company, grows frustrated with Isaac's emotional decline and attempts to take over the firm. The resulting crisis involves Isaac's other two children, his daughter Sarah and his dying son Martin.