this film be bad enough to get me to spend my time write this review . it actually start out a a big promise . find this movie and i think it would be a nice addition to contemporary jewish cinema with film like the excellent the believer . however i be very very wrong . this be a bad film in every sense of the word bad . 1. very bad acting ( the guy friend be so obnoxious and i couldn not stand to watch him ) 2. very shallow and uninspired script ( half of the script be just stupid ramble about f cking and suppose to signify lecherous new york life ) 3. mediocre movie makingthis really look and feel like a student film and and a pretty bad one . the only thing this guy get right be the dvd box which be pretty cool . for me a someone interested in the line between religious judaism and secular jew and this film be a major disappointment and embarrassment . it be fill with the bad kind of stereotype about orthodox jew and about secular new yorkers . some part get me so disgusted i could hardly watch it . it wouldn not have make me so angry and if it weren not that this film even win award in different film festival like the san paolo film festival and bendfilm festival and brooklyn festival . how on earth can that be . i can not believe they do not find good film to give award to . probably the politics of cinema play some part here . anyway and spare your time . and if you wish to see a decent movie about a displaced jew and go watch the believer or even the chosen and but please not this one . negative .