BigList
Login / Sign up
The Substance of Fire (1996)

The Substance of Fire (1996)

Drama

Doing What Is Right... Could Cost Him Everything.

Release Date: 1996, September 11
Directors: Daniel J. Sullivan
Countries: United States of America
Production: Miramax
Cast: Tony Goldwyn, Gil Bellows, José Ramón Rosario, Viola Davis, Patrick Page, Roger Rees, Gina Torres, Tom McDermott, Debra Monk, David Boston, Lee Grant, David S. Howard

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.