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The Substance of Fire (1996)

ALL 09/11/1996 (en) Drama 102 Min
  • Release
    09/11/1996
  • Production
    Miramax
  • Rotten tomato
    63%
  • Original title
    The Substance of Fire
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

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.

  2. Story

  3. Pamela Martin

    Editor



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  1. Tony Goldwyn

    Aaron Geldhart

  2. Timothy Hutton

    Martin Geldhart

  3. Ron Rifkin

    Isaac Geldhart

  4. Sarah Jessica Parker

    Sarah Geldhart

  5. Lee Grant

    Cora Cahn

  6. Elizabeth Franz

    Miss Barzakian

  7. Benjamin Ungar

    Young Issac

  8. Roger Rees

    Max

  9. Viola Davis

    Nurse

  10. Adolph Green

    Mr. Musselblatt

  11. Debra Monk

    Martha Hackett

  12. Tom McDermott

    Old Printer

  13. George Morfogen

    Otto the Printer

  14. Andrew Pang

    Mr. Otani Jr

  15. Edmund Ikeda

    Mr. Otani Sr

  16. Gil Bellows

    Val Chenard

  17. Eric Bogosian

    Gene Byck

  18. Ronny Graham

    Louis Foukold

  19. John Sullivan

    Stewart

  20. Sophia Salguero

    Rachel

  21. John Patrick Walker

    Peter

  22. David S. Howard

    Dr. Bernard Kramer

  23. Gregory Burke

    Young Martin Geldhart

  24. William Cain

    Mr. Cox

  25. Alec Mapa

    New Receptionist

  26. Edgar Martinez

    Miquel

  27. John Christopher Jones

    Book Binder

  28. Dick Latessa

    Mr. McCormack Sr

  29. Patrick Page

    Mr. McCormack Jr

  30. Kate Forbes

    Rizzoli Book Buyer

  31. Gloria Irizarry

    Esme

  32. Barbara Eda-Young

    Reena Geldhart

  33. Matt McGrath

    Young Book Clerk

  34. José Ramón Rosario

    Dennis the Tailor

  35. William Meisle

    Customer with Shoes

  36. Gina Torres

    Maitre d'

  37. Marc Schneier

    Rabbi

  38. Lynn Clayton

    Beautiful Woman

  39. Mary Fortune

    Art Student

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 39 , Crews : 19

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The Substance of Fire (1996) 102 Min

ALL 09/11/1996 (en)
Drama
  • Release 09/11/1996
  • Production
    Miramax
  • Original title The Substance of Fire
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Daniel J. Sullivan

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Pamela Martin

    Editor

  4. Ron Kastner, Randy Finch, Jon Robin Baitz

    Producer



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