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The Substance of Fire (1996)
Directed by Daniel J. Sullivan
Overview
Isaac Geldhart is a Holocaust survivor who, overcome by grief at the recent death of his wife, seems determined to run his publishing firm into the ground by printing books that have no hope of financial success. His son Aaron, who also works at the company, grows frustrated with Isaac’s emotional decline and attempts to take over the firm. The resulting crisis involves Isaac’s other two children, his daughter Sarah and his dying son Martin.
Rated R | Length 102 minutes
Actors
Tony Goldwyn | Timothy Hutton | Ron Rifkin | Sarah Jessica Parker | Lee Grant | Elizabeth Franz | Benjamin Ungar | Roger Rees | Viola Davis | Adolph Green | Debra Monk | Tom McDermott | George Morfogen | Andrew Pang | Edmund Ikeda | Gil Bellows | Eric Bogosian | Ronny Graham | John Sullivan | Sophia Salguero | John Patrick Walker | David S. Howard | Gregory Burke | William Cain | Alec Mapa | Edgar Martinez | John Christopher Jones | Dick Latessa | Patrick Page | Kate Forbes | Gloria Irizarry | Barbara Eda-Young | Matt McGrath | José Ramón Rosario | William Meisle | Gina Torres | Marc Schneier | Lynn Clayton | Mary Fortune