Review of Focus

Focus (I) (2001)
8/10
Focus Needs Some of That ***
27 September 2014
Warning: Spoilers
An interesting film which is a take-off of the 1947 Oscar winner "Gentleman's Agreement." In this version, a non-Jewish couple is mistaken for Jewish and they soon view all the indignities that anti- Semitism brings-rejection at hotels, violence, cursing, the whole 9 yards.

William H. Macy was very appealing as the personnel director who is demoted. When he wears his new glasses, he is taken for Jewish as well as his future wife who is supposed to be the stereotype of the Jewish woman-loud, colorful clothes, etc.

The picture really shows the degree of hatred existing in the U.S. during the waning days of World War 11.

The ending is uplifting when the couple is forced to take a stand after an assault.
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