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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
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Synopsis
Richard Dreyfuss put himself on the map with his performance in this movie about how ambition and greed can drive someone at the expense of his own happiness. Duddy Kravitz (Dreyfuss) is an 18-year-old Jewish kid from Montreal whose mother is dead, and whose father drives a cab and does a little pimping on the side to pay the bills and send Duddy's older brother to medical school. Duddy has bigger dreams, and he does everything from producing films of bar mitzvahs to attempting to buy real estate to (unknowingly) smuggling heroin in order to strike it rich. Along the way, however, he alienates his girlfriend, drives his grandfather to despair, loses all his friends, and even paralyzes his best employee, while making himself more and more miserable. Duddy's desire to be a success is easy to understand, which makes this potentially unlikable character forgivable, and the film's gallery of details and characters adds realism and energy to the story. ~ Don Kaye, All Movie Guide


Production Crew

Mordecai Richler Book Author
Lynn Stalmaster Casting
Brian West Cinematographer
Stanley Myers Composer (Music Score)
Ted Kotcheff Director
Thom Noble Editor
Gerald Schneider Executive Producer
Timothy Rowse First Assistant Director
Don Carmody Location Manager
John Kemeny Producer
Anne Pritchard Production Designer
Lionel Chetwynd Screenwriter
Mordecai Richler Screenwriter
Marcel Pothier Sound/Sound Designer
Year: 1974
Runtime: 120
Country: Canada
MPAA Rating: PG
Category: Feature

Genre
Comedy Drama

Produced by
Astral Films
International Cinemedia Centre

Awards
1974 - Best Foreign Film - Golden Globe
1974 - Golden Bear - Berlin International Film Festival
1974 - Best Foreign Film - Golden Globe
1974 - Best Foreign Film - Hollywood Foreign Press Association
1977 - Film Presented - Telluride Film Festival