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ISRAEL HOROVITZ   (1939 - )


Israel Horovitz
   Nationality:
American
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Plays by Israel Horovitz

ISRAEL HOROVITZ
50 Years of Caddying
1st Produced:
2001
Company:
American Stage Festival/ Gloucester Stage
1st Published:
in Boston Theatre Marathon of Ten Minute Plays Volume 3, Bakers Plays
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Genre:
play
Ten Min
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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ISRAEL HOROVITZ
50 Years Of Caddying
1st Produced:
2006
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
90 min
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Shifts between present day, with a racist, young black golfer and his old white caddy -- and 50 years ago, with a racist old white man and his young black caddy
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ISRAEL HOROVITZ
75th, The
1st Produced:
American Cultural Center, Paris
1974
Company:
-
1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY
1977
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Genre:
Comedy drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
part of The Quannapowitt Quartet
Synopsis:
The scene is a private dining room in a restaurant overlooking Lake Quannapowitt, the occasion the seventy-fifth reunion of a high school class-of which only two members remain. Now in their nineties, the two, Arthur "Cookie" Silverstein and Amy Chamberlain, don't remember each other at first, but, as they review their memories and recall old friendships, the past begins to clarify and emerge. Touching, funny and revealing, the play captures the sweep of long life, and the sense of how significant, in our later years, are the decisions and actions at which we arrive so casually in our youth.
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ISRAEL HOROVITZ
Acrobats
1st Produced:
Theatre de Lys, New York
1971
Company:
-
1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY
1971
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Two acrobats go valiantly through the complexities of their routine, smiling toothily, bowing on cue, and, all the while, conducting a sotto voce but lacerating marital spat. He threatens to drop her, she vows to leave him-but then the lights come up, the final bows are taken, and, subtly but surely, we are aware that their mutual dependency is still stronger than the tensions which have been so wittily and amusingly exposed.
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ISRAEL HOROVITZ
Affection in Time
1st Produced:
Theatre Row Studio, NY
2007
Company:
Barefoot Theatre Company
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
part of Israel Horovitz's New Shorts
Synopsis:
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ISRAEL HOROVITZ
Alfred Dies
1st Produced:
Actors Studio, New York
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "The Wakefield Plays", Avon, New York
1979
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
part of The Wakefield Plays
Synopsis:
Alfred and Emily discover incestuous roots that have caused the tragedy of their marriage, and lives lost together. Enormously theatrical, a profoundly moving final play in The Alfred Trilogy
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ISRAEL HOROVITZ
Alfred The Great
1st Produced:
American Cultural Center, Paris
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
Harper, New York
1974
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
First in The Alfred Trilogy and of the seven-play cycle, The Quannapowitt Quartet
Synopsis:
Alfred Webber visits his old family home where Margaret, his ex-girlfriend of many years ago, and her husband, Will, now live. Margaret still carries a torch for Albert, driving Will to extremes of jealousy. Even the child Alfred and Margaret share who had been given up for adoption, still permeates Margaret's psyche and her marriage. Alfred uses all these neurosis, plus, some of his own, to find out the truth about his brother's mysterious murder. Though the murder happened years ago, Alfred has his hunches about Will, and on the pretext of coming to visit his father's grave, stays in the old homestead and catches up on old times. When Alfred's wife, Emily, shows up, her presence throws the visit into disarray, but also provides Alfred with the strength to set Will up for a confession to the murder. Through deception, seduction, revelation and even torture, Alfred discovers his father is really alive, Margaret reveals a suppressed past, and a confession of murder is dragged out of Will. The facts are sketchy
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ISRAEL HOROVITZ
Barking Sharks
1st Produced:
1995
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
2003
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Genre:
heroic, romantic. 2 hrs
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Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
A Storm Brewing, in the Middle-Aged Soul and at Sea
Synopsis:
A large, compelling story of a Gloucester-born man who quits as head of a successful NYC ad agency, to return home to Gloucester to become a fisherman.
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ISRAEL HOROVITZ
Beirut Rocks
1st Produced:
Theatre Row Studio, NY
2007
Company:
Barefoot Theatre Company
1st Published:
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
part of Israel Horovitz's New Shorts
Synopsis:
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ISRAEL HOROVITZ
Brownstone
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Brownstone is mentioned in the National Playwrights Directory, I have no other information.
Synopsis:
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ISRAEL HOROVITZ
Cappella
1st Produced:
New York
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
Harper & Row (ISBN: 0060119624 )
1973
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
novel by Horovitz, with David Boorstin
Synopsis:
this adaptation of Horovitz's highly-praised novel travels through the centuries to tell the story of a young poet of endless hope, trapped with an old man of endless complaint
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ISRAEL HOROVITZ
Captains And Courage
1st Produced:
T. Schreiber Studio, NY
2000
Company:
-
1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY
1999
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
10
Female
2
Parts Other:
1b 1g (flexible)
Notes:
Designed for a multi-racial cast of 14 or more actors playing multiple roles, CAPTAINS COURAGE intermingles Kipling's 19th century tale of Gloucester fishermen with playwright Israel Horovitz's own tale of the modern-day descendants of Kipling's character
Synopsis:
In Kipling's nineteenth-century story, Harvey Cheyne, an obnoxious rich boy, falls from the deck of a luxury liner and is rescued by a fishing boat, the "We're Here," owned by a black captain, Disko Troop. Aboard the "We're Here," Harvey learns about hard work, about courage, and about life. In Horovitz's twentieth-century counterpart (the two stories alternate in parallel development), Manny Shimma, a sixteen-year-old homeless wiseguy, in trouble with the law, finds himself hiding out on a tiny fishing boat, the "Sylvie the 2nd," captained by Ben Cheyne, Harvey Cheyne's great-great-great grandson, with a single crewman, Roland Troop, Disko Troop's great-great-great grandson. Aboard the "Sylvie the 2nd," Manny, too, learns about hard work, courage, and life. Modern and traditional sea-chanteys are sung by cast and chorus throughout the play. Live musicians can be used, on-stage and off. CAPTAINS AND COURAGE is a play of high adventure, full-blown emotion, and great dignity, a perfect choice for theater groups
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ISRAEL HOROVITZ
Cat Lady
1st Produced:
2004
Company:
Gloucester Stage Company
1st Published:
in Israel Horovitz Plays 1, Methuen, London
2006
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Genre:
play
Ten Min
Parts:
Male
-
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
monologue about an elderly Cat Lady ascends to a couldn't-see-it-coming cosmic twist
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ISRAEL HOROVITZ
Cat Lady
1st Produced:
Theatre Row Studio, NY
2007
Company:
Barefoot Theatre Company
1st Published:
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
part of Israel Horovitz's New Shorts
Synopsis:
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ISRAEL HOROVITZ
Chopin Playoffs, The
1st Produced:
New York
1986
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "An Israel Horovitz Trilogy", Nelson Doubleday, New York
1987
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
Two boys, two pianos, one girl
Notes:
stories by Morley Torgov. Part of The Growing-Up-Jewish Trilogy
Synopsis:
The time is 1947, and Stanley Rosen and Irving Yanover, lifelong friends now approaching young manhood, find themselves pitted against each other on two fronts. Both are piano prodigies, and will be rivals in a forthcoming, and prestigious, competition. And both, unfortunately, are smitten by the same girl, the lovely Fern Phipps, who (to the dismay of both the Rosen and Yanover families) is not even Jewish. But friendship wins out over ambition when both boys contrive to play poorly in the competition-so that neither will win. Also, as Fern has decided to award her favor to the winner of the piano contest, that problem is dealt with as well. And, again, all is put forth with such good humor and warmth that the play, like the others in the trilogy, becomes a lesson in the value of simple, family virtues and the essential brotherhood of man.
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ISRAEL HOROVITZ
Christmas Carol, A: Scrooge And Marley
1st Produced:
Centre Stage, Baltimore, MD
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY
1979
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Genre:
Christmas Play
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Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
Casting flexible, minimum of 22 players
Notes:
book by Charles Dickens
Synopsis:
Famous the world over, the often bizarre and ultimately heart-warming story of Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and the others needs no detailing here. Mr. Horovitz's adaptation follows the Dickens original scrupulously but, in bringing it to life on the stage, adds elements of inventiveness and brilliant theatricality which enhance and strengthen its timeless virtues. The end result is a theatre piece of unique eloquence, which will delight audiences of all ages, and draw forth the best efforts of all engaged in its presentation.
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ISRAEL HOROVITZ
Clair-Obscur (Clearly-Obscure)
1st Produced:
theatre 108 in Aix in Provence, France
1999
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
the subject is rather disconcerting: a family of Blacks takes a pill in order to become white, i.e. to release itself socially from the white domination. However this change will not affect their cultural attitudes and will not change their past
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ISRAEL HOROVITZ
Comeback, The
1st Produced:
Emerson Theatre, Boston, MA
1958
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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ISRAEL HOROVITZ
Compromise
1st Produced:
2005
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama, 95 min
Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
staged readin Gloucester Stage, 2002. French Language premiere,Theatre de L'ile, 2003
Synopsis:
about a scientist and his cleaning lady. Moving and marvelous!" Boston Globe. 95 min
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ISRAEL HOROVITZ
Dance Play
1st Produced:
Theatre Row Studio, NY
2007
Company:
Barefoot Theatre Company
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
part of Israel Horovitz's New Shorts
Synopsis:
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ISRAEL HOROVITZ
Death Of Bernard The Believer, The
1st Produced:
South Orange, New Jersey
1960
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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ISRAEL HOROVITZ
Dr. Hero
1st Produced:
Great Neck, NY
1972
Company:
Shade Company
1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY
1973
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Genre:
Vaudeville
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Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
1M + 7 M or W
Notes:
aka Hero
Synopsis:
The hero, who is named Hero, is born onstage. Thereafter come scenes of childhood, education, army service, and then marriage-as Hero becomes Dr. Hero (Ph.D.) and begins to assume the "greatness" that he knows is destined to be his. As he moves forward (including his especially hilarious entry into the advertising business) his charisma-and ego-grow apace, and even old age fails to dim the surging spirit that, through a long and turbulent life, has won and sustained for him the singular title of "The World's Greatest Man."
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ISRAEL HOROVITZ
Drole de Mari Francais, Un (A Funny French Husband)
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Israel Horovitz Collected Works Volume III, Smith & Kraus
1997
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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ISRAEL HOROVITZ
Faith
1st Produced:
New York
1988
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Faith, Hope and Charity, Dramatists Play Service, New York
1989
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Genre:
Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Written for the Horovitz-McNally-Melfi 1988 reunion triptych, Hope, Faith and Charity
Synopsis:
a group of 1960s radical writers hold a reunion, twenty years later, in front of the statue of the Polish King Jagiello in New York's Central Park. Reared in an age of sex, booze, drugs and explicit language, the group finds that time, and the demands of making a living, have both drained their passions and left their dreams half-realized. But the daughter of one of them, speaking for her own generation, confronts them with the legacy of cynicism and hopelessness which they have passed on, whether or not they realize it.
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ISRAEL HOROVITZ
Fast Hands
1st Produced:
2003
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama
Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A comic drama set in a boxing gym and various fight-arenas, focusing on the relationship between a young black prizefighter and an older white ex-prizefighter, who the young man seeks out and finds - and who proves to be his biological father. 90 min
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ISRAEL HOROVITZ
Fat Guy Gets Girl
1st Produced:
Theatre Row Studio, NY
2007
Company:
Barefoot Theatre Company
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
part of Israel Horovitz's New Shorts
Synopsis:
-
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ISRAEL HOROVITZ
Fat Guy Gets the Girl, The
1st Produced:
2005
Company:
Gloucester Stage Company
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
play
Ten Min
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
-
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ISRAEL HOROVITZ
Fighting Over Beverley
1st Produced:
1993
Company:
-
1st Published:
Doubleday Books
1995
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
On the day World War II ends, Beverley, a young Englishwoman, jilts her British beau, runs off with an American flyer. Now, all three are 70+ years old. The Brit appears at Beverley's Gloucester, Mass. home, proclaims "He's had you for 45 years! Enough's enough! I'm taking you back with me!" In the end, she leaves: alone. 2 hrs.
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ISRAEL HOROVITZ
Firebird At Dogtown
1st Produced:
-
1987
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
play with music and dance
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Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A play with music and dance, intermingling a grizzly murder in wooded Downtown with the biography of eccentric billionaire, Roger Babson, who spent much his childhood in Dogtown. 90 min
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ISRAEL HOROVITZ
First, The, The Last, And The Middle
1st Produced:
New York
1974
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Comedy Triptych
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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ISRAEL HOROVITZ
Former One-On-One Basketball Champion, The
1st Produced:
Actors Studio, New York (Gloucester Stage Co, Gloucester, MA ?)
1977
Company:
-
1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY
1982
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Genre:
Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
-
Parts Other:
one is a teenager
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The scene is a city playground, where an undersized teenager is shooting baskets. An enormously tall man of middle age stops to watch; then to give pointers to the boy; and finally to challenge him to a one-on-one competition. As they play, it is quickly evident that the older man was once a professional and, in fact, the boy is aware of who he is and of what happened to his once promising career. It also develops that the father of the boy was killed by the son of the older man during a robbery-and now the man has come to atone for his son's crime. He wants to even the score, by letting the boy shoot him (as his father was shot), or, less drastically, by allowing the boy to win over him on the basketball court. But the boy rejects both alternatives-when he wins he wants to "win straight," and all he asks for is a rematch in ten years, when he will be taller, stronger, and more skilled, and able to go "one-on-one" without any concessions given.
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ISRAEL HOROVITZ
Free Gift
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
-
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A one-act play, telling the story of an older white woman, who is mother of an adopted child, and the young black woman who left the child on the older woman's doorstep, several years earlier. Gentle and daring. 45 min.
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ISRAEL HOROVITZ
Good Parts, The
1st Produced:
Actors Studio, New York
1979
Company:
-
1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY
1983
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Brian Levine and Eugene Jacoby, two New York lawyers and lifelong friends, are restive under t