Enemies: A Love Story

Ron Silver stars as Herman, a Holocaust survivor who believes that his wife Tamara (Anjelica Huston) perished in the concentration camps. He marries fellow immigrant Yadwiga (Margaret Sophie Stein), whose family sheltered him from the Nazis, and resettles in the Coney Island area of New York. Not ...more

Though writer-director Paul Mazursky attempted to remake a Jean Renoir film with Down and Out in Beverly Hills, his Enemies: A Love Story actually comes closer to capturing Renoir's brand of resonant, humanistic farce. Based on Isaac Bashevis Singer's novel, Enemies is a rich, bittersweet blend of cultural and personal observations held together by a career-best performance by Ron Silver as a man trying to juggle three wives. No less important are the skilled actresses who portray the women in ...more