Fire Sale (film)

Fire Sale is a 1977 comedy film starring Alan Arkin who also directed as Ezra Fikus Rob Reiner as his brother Russel Vincent Gardenia as their father Benny Sid Caesar as Bennys brother Sherman Anjanette Comer as Marion Ezras wife and Kay Medford as Ruth Bennys wife.

During a vacation trip with Marion, Benny has a heart attack, and his sons Ezra and Russel take over the store. The low selfesteemed Russell wants to expand the store and marry his girlfriend, while Ezra needs money to adopt an orphaned 68 AfricanAmerican teenage boy named Booker T Byron Stewart. Ezra needs Booker T. to play on the highschool basketball team he coaches because he has won a total of two games in seven years as a coach and is in danger of losing his job.Russell discovers that his father is bankrupt, with his only asset being the surrender value on the stores fire insurance policy. Russell cashes in the policy and splits it with Ezra, using the money to buy more stock. Back at home, Benny is practically comatose after his heart attack. An in denial Marion is told by house painters helping with a home redecoration project that her husband is very sick which she interprets as Benny being already dead. She then decides to change redecoration plans to prepare for funeral services. ........

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