Movielogr
Awake and Sing! (1972)
Directed by Norman Lloyd, Robert Hopkins
Overview
The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depression, struggle through hard times and dream of a better future in this 1972 production of Clifford Odets’ pungent play. Personalities and politics clash as Odets’ mélange of characters try to survive on pennies a day. Walter Matthau plays cynical World War I amputee Moe Axelrod, and Leo Fuchs portrays the family’s iron-willed leftist grandfather.
Length 95 minutes
Actors
Walter Matthau | Ron Rifkin | Felicia Farr | Martin Ritt | Leo Fuchs | Robert Lipton | John Myhers | Ruth Storey