Duddy Kravitz
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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is a 1974 Canadian comedy drama film directed by Ted Kotcheff, and adapted by Mordechai Richler and Lionel Chetwynd from Richler’s 1959 novel. It stars Richard Dreyfuss as the title character, a brash young Jewish Montrealer who embarks on a string of get-rich-quick schemes in a bid to gain respect.
The novel focuses on the young life of Duddy Kravitz, a poor Jewish boy raised in Montreal, Quebec. As a child, he is told by his grandfather that "a man without land is nobody," and he believes land ownership to be life's ultimate goal and the means by which a man becomes a somebody.
With Richard Dreyfuss, Micheline Lanctôt, Jack Warden, Randy Quaid. In a bid to gain respect, the neglected younger son of a working class Jewish family in Montréal embarks on a series of get-rich-quick schemes to buy land surrounding a lake.
- (2.7K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Ted Kotcheff
Mordecai Richler’s classic novel, “The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz,” was first published in 1959. The novel is set in Montreal, Canada, during the 1940s and follows the journey of Duddy Kravitz, a young Jewish man who is determined to become successful at any cost.
In The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Mordecai Richler tells the tale of Duddy -- a young Jew from a poor, 1940s Montreal St. Urbain Street neighbourhood. Duddy is a complicated character.
- (9K)
- Paperback
Duddy Kravitz (Richard Dreyfuss) lives in the shadow of his brother, whom his father, Max (Jack Warden), and his Uncle Benjy (Joseph Wiseman) are helping to put through medical school.
- (15)
- Comedy, Drama
- PG
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Taxi driver Max Kravitz, who pimps on the side, lives with his two grown sons - early twenty-something medical student Lennie Kravitz, and late teen Duddy Kravitz, who has just graduated from high school - in the working class Jewish neighborhood of Montréal.
