Yoo Hoo Mrs. Goldberg
2009 • United States • 92 minutes Thursday, March 18, 2010 • 12:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCThis is the humorous and eye-opening story of television pioneer Gertrude Berg. She was the creator, principal writer, and star of The Goldbergs, a popular radio show which became television’s very first character-driven domestic sitcom in 1949. Berg received the first Best Actress Emmy in history and paved the way for women in the entertainment...
Mary and Max
2008 • Australia • 92 minutes Thursday, March 18, 2010 • 07:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCNew Jersey Premiere
Inspired by the real life experience of its Oscar-winning filmmaker Adam Elliot (Harvie Krumpet), this film portrays the 20-year pen pal friendship of Mary Dinkle (Toni Collette), a chubby, lonely 8-year old from Melbourne and Max Horowitz (Philip Seymour Hoffman), an obese, isolated 44-year old New Yorker with Asperger’s Syndrome. Masterfully narrated by...