Something went wrong
Try again later.
Holy Rollers
Sam Gold (Jesse Eisenberg), a mild-mannered 20-year-old Orthodox Jewish man, risks being ostracized from his religious community when he becomes a drug mule for his best friend's older brother.
2 August 1992, East Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
28 March 1972, Ukraine
15 April 1974, Ozark, Alabama, USA
10 December 1985, USA
5 March 1986, New York City, New York, USA
July 7, 1982 in Middletown, New York, USA
4 September 1977, New York City, New York, USA
10 April 1970, Brooklyn, New York, USA
4 December 1986, New York City, New York, USA
17 May 1985
12 July 1997, New York, USA
5 October 1983, New York City, New York, USA
October 26, 1952 in USA
7 December 1984, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
6 September 1968, Chernovtsy, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Chernivtsi, Ukraine]
July 10, 2011
Despite a suitably nervy turn from Eisenberg, there's no energy to the film-making or much insight into the story.
July 08, 2011
We expect more than we eventually get, even if what we get is watchable throughout.
July 08, 2011
It's a familiar premise and Holy Rollers sprinkles precisely nothing new into the roll-up.
August 28, 2013
The one and only problem I had with HOLY ROLLERS was the pacing. I found myself getting slightly bored and at times, looking at my watch. I'm sure it's not easy to mesh Orthodox Judaism and Ecstasy, but Asch did a pretty good job.
July 10, 2011
It's a surprisingly cool little film, not funny at all but rather seriously torn between the secular and the sacred, a conflict Eisenberg expresses with a neurotic intensity.
June 18, 2010
The scenes of family conflict are sketchily dramatized. We never get to the place where the two parts of Sam's personality meet -- the devoted son and sharp-dealing criminal.
February 08, 2013
Offering the viewer hardly any reason to feel this story is credible.
July 06, 2011
This is moviemaking on autopilot.
June 17, 2010
The film is slight, but Eisenberg is a deadpan delight.
June 17, 2010
As a thriller, it's bubkes.
June 18, 2010
It's sadder and scarier than its predecessors, but it also may be the most important chapter in the tale.
June 25, 2010
It's not a terrible movie, but all the way through you feel as if you've already seen it.
