Go For Zucker! (2004)

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A Journalist of Jewish descent in Berlin feels that he is a loser of the political changes in Germany after 1989. When his mother dies, he has to meet his brother to whom he has not talked for years and to meet all his other family members. But during the preparations for the funeral he plays a snooker-cup for paying his debts with the money for the victory, and many other things mix up.

Jackie “Sugar” Zucker is an unrepentant lowlife gambler and hustler, utterly irredeemable, owner of a bordello and mounting debts, estranged from his children (though inexplicably, his son is the debt collector for the bank trying to haul him to jail), and rightly on the brink of divorce. When his mother dies and her will calls for an orthodox rabbi to preside over shivah and observe Jackie (born Jakob Zuckermann) bonding with his long lost yeshivish brother in order for the inheritance to go to them as opposed to charity, madcap hilarity ensues (or so we are encouraged to believe by the DVD case). What the movie actually shows is a repulsive orthodox family replete with fat, piggish, money obsessed wife, attractive, strange, slutty daughter, reclusive, socially retarded son, and obstinate, hot-headed father. Jackie must contend with this motley crew while attempting to avoid shivah and play in a high stakes billiards tournament.

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Go For Zucker! (2004)

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