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An offbeat documentary about the real-life Jewish roots of Elvis Presley. When the Wall Street Journal... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
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A bunch of Canadian Jewish dudes travel all the way to Memphis, TN to check whether Elvis was Jewish. His great-grandmother was Jewish so Elvis would also be Jewish according to Jewish law Elvis would be a Jew too.
This travelogue of sorts is a seemingly pointless documentary as the only people who is interested in Elvis's religion is only the film director and Schmelvis, a not so good Elvis impersonator who performs Elvis's songs with Jewish twist in an unspectacular fashion. The crew interviews several people around Graceland and people generally think that this is a non-issue that only the film crew is interested in. The accompanying rabbi steals the show with his edgy and down to earth views - he thinks the trip is delightful but useless as the film makers haven't prepared the trip at all with any sort of research. I agree.
While the documentary is - at best - inconclusive about the subject, it manages to entertain throughout as the film makers know very well from the beginning that they lack focus. Proving that Elvis was or was not a Jewish is really useless because his life didn't revolve around religion. If they had a scoop that some famous anti-semitic person had Jewish heritage or a prominent Jew had dubious links to Judaism.
Offbeat-character interviewing off-beat characters is what this film amounts to in the end and manages to be entertaining in its 76 minute runtime.