We first posted the trailer for this one back in April of last year, and were sure that the festival favourite was coming out a few weeks later in May 2010.
Almost a year later and Kevin Asch’s film finally gets the UK release date of May 20th and will no doubt enjoy the rising profiles of the two stars of the film with Justin Bartha’a turn in The Hangover and Jesse Eisenberg’s performance as Mark Zuckerberg doing much to bring an audience to this film.
Here’s some promotional blurb to inform, educate and enjoy,
Holy Rollers is inspired by actual events in the late nineties when Hasidic Jews were recruited as mules to smuggle ecstasy from Europe into the United States. Sam Gold (Jesse Eisenberg), a young Hasid from an Orthodox Brooklyn community reluctantly follows the path his family has chosen for him, awaiting a pending arranged marriage and studying to become a Rabbi. A charming neighbour, Yosef Zimmerman (Justin Bartha), senses Sam’s resistance and propositions him to transport ‘medicine’ for Jackie (Danny A. Abeckaser), an Israeli gangster and drug dealer, and his girlfriend, Rachel (Ari Graynor).
Sam quickly demonstrates his business skills to his boss, Jackie, who instantly takes him under his wing. Now exposed to the exciting and gritty worlds of the Manhattan and Amsterdam nightlife, Sam begins to spiral deeper into their detrimental lifestyle, experimenting with ecstasy and then falling for Rachel. As the business grows, Sam’s double life begins to rip his family apart and the community becomes suspicious of his illegal activities
Poster follows,
Empire did it first.
