Plot
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.
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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