Shmuel, a Hasidic cantor in Upstate New York and distraught at the untimely death of his wife, struggles to find religious solace, while secretly obsessing over how her body will decay. As a clandestine partnership develops with Albert, a local community college biology professor, the two embark on a darkly comic and increasingly literal undertaking into the underworld.
Cast
Géza Röhrig
Shmuel
Matthew Broderick
Albert
Sammy Voit
Naftali
Leo Heller
Noam
Isabelle Phillips
Shprintzel
Sarah Jes Austell
Lab Receptionist
Natalie Carter
Security Guard
Bern Cohen
Reb Goshen
Linda Frieser
Wake Goer
Ben Hammer
Rebbe
Marceline Hugot
Carol
Andrew Keenan-Bolger
Doctor
Stephanie Kurtzuba
Receptionist
Jill Marie Lawrence
Judy
Larry Owens
Stanley
Annie Pisapia
Patient
Jaclyn S. Powell
Hasidic Jewess sitting shiva with Faigy
Aaron Raksin
Sender
Zalman Raksin
Brother-In-Law
Reuven Russell
Hasidic Jew
Janet Sarno
Faigy
Joseph Siprut
Undertaker
Leanne Michelle Watson
Rivkah
Ziv Zaifman
Moishe
Crew
Shawn Snyder
Director, Writer
Jason Begue
Writer
Allyson C. Johnson
Editor
Xavi Giménez
Director of Photography
Alessandro Nivola
Producer
Ron Perlman
Producer
Emily Mortimer
Producer
Josh Crook
Producer
Scott Floyd Lochmus
Producer
Alexandra Kaucher
Production Design
Evren Catlin
Costume Design
Robert Morgan
Animation
Ariel Marx
Original Music Composer
Brian Papworth
Production Manager
Cheyenne Ford
Art Direction
Recommendations
view all
Kinds of Kindness
Ricky Gervais: Armageddon
Family Weekend
Hooking Up
Desperate Living
Hard to Die
Ricky Gervais: Mortality
Bill Burr: Drop Dead Years
School Dance
For a Good Time, Call...
The Killer's Game
Suburbia
In the Soup
Your Friends & Neighbors
Happiness
The Road Within
Jawbreaker
Lockdown
High Anxiety
How to Murder Your Wife