Joshua Then and Now (film)
Joshua Then and Now is a 1985 film and a TV miniseries, adapted by Mordecai Richler from his semiautobiographical novel Joshua Then and Now. James Woods starred as the adult Joshua, Gabrielle Lazure as his wife, and Alan Arkin as Joshuas father. It was directed by Ted Kotcheff who had previously directed Richlers The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.
Joshua Shapiro, successful writer and pundit, in a hospital room, seems to have lost his wife and is in the middle of a sex scandal. Compelled to find meaning in his life, he reviews it from his youth to the present day.Joshua grew up as a Jew in the working class St. Urbain Street area in Montreal. His upbringing was unusual because his father was a boxer who had become a gentle crook and his mother was a striptease dancer. Embarrassingly, she strips for his friends as part of a Bar Mitzvah party for him. Joshuas father is revealed to have a unique perspective on life, sex, and religion. ........
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