| Adam Resurrected [Blu-ray] | ![Adam Resurrected [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51aMw46MtuL._SL160_.jpg) | Director: Paul Schrader
Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Willem Dafoe, Cristian Motiu, Derek Jacobi, Ayelet Zurer
Studio: Image Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 55,622
Format: Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Blu-ray
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 106 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 014381628753
UPC: 014381628753
EAN: 0014381628753
ASIN: B002C39T28
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: September 22, 2009
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Concentration death camp survivor Adam uses his magic skills to help himself and others in an Israeli mental asylum.
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 Disturbing but superbly written and directed August 3, 2010
Ellen C. Maze (Montgomery, AL United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I wanted to watch this movie because it starred Jeff Goldblum. Some friends warned me that it was disturbing, but I barreled on. As it turned out, yes, it did disturb because it depicted abuse by a Nazi officer on a Jewish comedian during the war. I am no stranger to Nazi / Holocaust movies, and I will never become numb when I see these atrocities depicted. Thankfully, the war scenes were backstory, and (as we are remind in the special features) this is a fiction story. The people aren't real and the situation and hospital are not real. That is some comfort.
Goldblum's character, Adam, was a famous German/Jewish comedian before Hitler and then ended up in a camp, divided from his family. His Nazi CO forced him to act like a dog the whole time he was there, on hands and knees, eating from dog bowls, sleeping in the kennel, the whole nine yards. But the bulk of the movie takes place in a fictional Israeli hospital for Holocaust survivors who have gone around the bend. Also, Adam is a little psychically precognitive...
I won't do anymore synopsis, but just let me say that the acting of all players is superb, the writing bang-on, and Jeff speaks Hebrew, Yiddish, German and English like he was born to do so. Amazing.
Because of the Hebrew/Jewish influence, Jewish people like me and my family will get the most out of this film, but like most Israeli films, it's utter brilliance makes it shine as brightly as any Hollywood made film.
5-stars
Rated R for language and some (groping) sex scenes.
Ellen C Maze
Author of Curiously Spiritual Vampire Tales
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 Terrible Movie June 1, 2010
jon jones (wichita, ks)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
From the beginning this movie had disgusting filth in it. I couldn't watch it and threw the movie away. I used to think Jeff Goldblum a good actor but am disappointed he would make such a movie.
Adam Resurrected is a treasure February 1, 2010
Salvador R. Quijada (Tucson, AZ)
Goldblum's best work ever. Strange and funny at the same time is not often entertaining.
As close to the horror as I've ever been January 3, 2010
James N. Kraut (Coral Springs, FL United States)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
After a close friend "insisted" that I watch this film, I was absolutely torn apart by it, at times entertained by it and left with indelible images and feelings that may never leave me. It is a stunningly woven story of humanity at the peak of its potential for courage and resilience, as well as its unspeakable cruelty and taste for inflicting pain. I was startled, however, to discover that I was in the minority in my assessment. Most reviews, professional and otherwise, are either mixed or unfavorable. Is it too hard to take this film in? And if so, is it because of its intellectual or emotional demands - or both? As a psychologist and a Jew, let me say that I have never been made to feel the complex horrors of the holocaust on this level. Jeff Goldblum's performance is criminally unrecognized; it is the work of genius he has never before manifested. Perhaps the genius Goldblum found in the story itself, and in Paul Schrader's direction moved him to new heights. The rest of the cast is brilliant as well.
Adam Resurrected deals unflinchingly with the excruciating, bitterly ironic issues that Hitler's slaughterhouses have evoked in the area of faith and the Jewish attitude toward the God whose deliverance of their ancestors from slavery is celebrated year after year. The ironies and metaphors throughout the film involving men and dogs say more than any words of praise could possibly express.
Suffice it to say that this is, in my humble opinion, one of the finest films of the last decade, and perhaps the best work of art on the holocaust of all time. It is demanding, complex and disturbing, but highly worth your time and attention.
Goldblum blooms into gold January 2, 2010
Erol Esen (Webster, NY United States)
In movies that I have seen Jeff Goldblum in I never thought of him much more than a fly on the set, but he is really, and I mean really, good in this movie. In fact he gives an Oscar caliber performance.
My knees buckle when comedy's scrupulously interjected into the midst of extreme tragedy of the Holocaust scale. Last time I've seen a movie like this was Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful.
Goldblum's character, Adam Stein, was a very successful comedy producer in Berlin in the 1930's. He owned a theater that even Nazis frequented to enjoy their time there. Although he saw the dark side of the Nazi regime as early as 1936, when a bunch of Nazi soldiers entered backstage and killed his show bear, he did not take his family and leave Germany. Fast forward to 1944, he and his family are seen in a train, which is on its way to a concentration camp. Fast forward to 1960s, he is now in an Israeli institute in the middle of a desert specifically designed to rehabilitate concentration camp survivors.
Stein's story is getting back on life's track.
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