Loving Leah (2009)
1h 35m
Running Time
January 25, 2009Release Date
Loving Leah (2009)
1h 35m
Running Time
January 25, 2009Release Date
Plot.
A handsome Washington, D.C. doctor and a young New York woman fall in love at an unusual time...after they get married. Leah Lever is married to an Orthodox rabbi, Benjamin Lever, whose brother, Jake is a successful cardiologist and a non-practicing Jew. Jake is stunned when Benjamin dies suddenly, but not as stunned as when he is told that, under an ancient Jewish Law, he is expected to marry the childless Leah to carry on Benjamin's name.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Lauren Ambrose
Leah Lever
Adam Kaufman
Jake Lever
Susie Essman
Malka
Harris Yulin
Rabbi Belsky
Natasha Lyonne
Esther
Christy Pusz
Carol
Ricki Lake
Rabbi Gerry
Mercedes Ruehl
Janice Lever
Tonye Patano
Emily
Donnie Keshawarz
Raj
Jeff Bleckner
Director
Pnenah Goldstein
Writer
Jeff Beal
Composer
Charles Minsky
Cinematographer
Geoffrey Rowland
Editor
Lynn Kressel
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Loving Leah is a television film that aired on CBS as a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie on January 25, 2009. The film is directed by Jeff Bleckner and stars Adam Kaufman as a non-observant Jewish bachelor who feels compelled to marry his rabbi brother's widow, Leah (Lauren Ambrose), to honor him via the ancient Jewish law of yibbum (levirate marriage).Loving Leah began as a play by P'nenah Goldstein and was brought to Hallmark by Ricki Lake, who appears in a minor role in the film. Goldstein also wrote the screenplay and "saw it in a way like Moonstruck or Crossing Delancey." To prepare for her role, lead actress Lauren Ambrose spent time with women of the close-knit Hasidic community.