i absolutely hate it when a film completely fall apart near the end and after you have already invest an hour into it . and that what happen with this film . i be intrigue by it actor and the fact that malamud write it source story . i haven not go to read that story but i can not imagine that it end like this film end . fortunately i do not pay good money to see or rent it because my library have it . ohhhh such a waste of excellent acting ( the wife in particular be so perfect ) . but milo o hea a a jew . now that be funny . i haven not research into it making but it play like the director lose his marble or die 3/4 of the way through the film . before that point and a story and character be develop and there be a number of neat plot point and there wasn not too much time waste . but ooh that last half hour if that wasn not the screwy and most worthless denouement i have ever witness and i do not know what be . i just hate it when one faith be so destroyed like that while it feel like an act of violence .