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Peter Riegert and Isabella Rosselini
play husband and wife in "King of
the Cornen"
Elkin, sent the book as a gift.
Riegert had been on the prowl for
material to direct and, hooked by the
title, he zoomed through the book,
phoned Shapiro immediately, and they
set about adapting the stories into a
screenplay.
Riegert, 58, allows that he was not
only attracted to the drama of ordinary
life but to the notion that Jewish identi-
ty and morality are present even in thor-
oughly assimilated Jews.
"I think what Gerry is getting at [is]
at the end of the day, good or bad,
you're a Jew," Riegert explains, on the
phone from New York. "But how reli-
gious a Jewish person is, even a devout
person asks that of themselves. You're
forever arguing with yourself and your
relationship with God — or not God."
Riegert notes that many Holocaust
survivors grappled with their faith, but
less momentous events can ignite an
internal debate. "I don't think you need
to go through that to have that wrestling
match," he says.
For his part, Riegert was raised in a
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wise fool who does
regrets. His longtime
his best counseling at
companion Inez
the dog track.
(Rita Moreno) and
Shapiro and
Leo wryly agree, "If
Riegert
aren't inter-
he could have made
ested in satirizing
a living pissing peo-
organized Jewish reli-
ple off, he'd be a rich
gion — although
man."
Leo's earlier meeting
A man of no
with a funeral direc-
accomplishments,
Peter Riegert directorial debut mir-
tor, at Sol's insis-
Sol still has the edge
rors his own screen persona, which is
tence,
is savagely
on Leo because he
to say it unpretentious, self-deprecat-
funny
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reinvented himself
ing and uncommonly decent,
upending cliches and
twice — when he
reveling in the
left Lithuania for
absurdities of everyday life.
America as a boy and years later when
King of the Corner, which moves at a
he moved to the desert after Leo's moth-
deliberate pace until a pivotal event
er died. Both of those took gumption,
upends Leo's world, achieves a definite
but what's Leo ever done?
momentum although it stops well short
Leo numbly tolerates Sol's kvetching,
of farce. In a sense its direction is back-
just as he hears Rachel's imprecations
ward, for Leo steadily regresses from
and the demands of his ambitious pro-
adulthood to adolescence.
tege (Jake Hoffman — Dustin's son —
Until, that is, he's on the verge of los-
playing a droll variation of Sammy
ing everything. Although Leo is not
Glick) with only one ear.
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But his wake-up call arrives in the
mature
and rewarding film, he's discov-
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