Best friends since they were kids, Rabbi Jacob Schram and Father Brian Finn are dynamic and popular young men living and working on New York's Upper West Side. When Anna Reilly, once their childhood friend and now grown into a beautiful corporate executive, suddenly returns to the city, she reenters Jake and Brian's lives and hearts with a vengeance. Sparks fly and an unusual and complicated love triangle ensues.
Acting
Norton and Stiller's genuinely warm best-friend chemistry.
Writing
Smart interfaith humor that actually respects both religions.
Direction
Norton's confident first outing behind the camera.
Director
Edward Norton
Ben Stiller
Rabbi Jake Schram
Edward Norton
Father Brian Finn
Jenna Elfman
Anna Riley
Anne Bancroft
Ruth Schram
Eli Wallach
Rabbi Ben Lewis
Ron Rifkin
Larry Friedman
Miloš Forman
Father Havel
Holland Taylor
Bonnie Rose
Lisa Edelstein
Ali Decker
Brian George
Paulie Chopra, the Sikh Catholic Muslim with Jewish in-laws who owns an Irish Pub
Rena Sofer
Rachel Rose
Ken Leung
Don
Marilyn Cooper
'Don't Walk' Lady
Juan Piedrahita
Omar
Bodhi Elfman
Howard the Casanova
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Edward Norton's directorial debut—he fought hard for final cut and cast his own grandfather's rabbi as a consultant.
The film captures a specific late-'90s Upper West Side moment before interfaith dating became rom-com boilerplate; Anne Bancroft's performance was modeled on Norton's own Jewish grandmother.
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