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On one level, JOSHUA is an ethnic comedy about social climbing, in which an upwardly mobile Jewish man (Joshua) falls in love with Pauline, the daughter of a wealthy Canadian senator. Joshua and Pauline share politics - he's obsessed with the Spanish Civil War and she organizes to "ban the bomb" - sexual intimacy and their love for their children. But compelling forces - class and ethnic differences, their separate families, and sexism - work to tear them apart. This brilliant adaptation of Canadian Jewish writer Mordecai Richler's novel says much about neurotic family ties, youthful rebellion, and the power of love to make reconciliation possible. Starring James Woods.
