Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace (1992)

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A drama about two families, each with a gay son. Jonathan is splitting from Miki because the more experienced Miki is playing around. Then Jonathan sees Thomas, the son and grandson of his neighbors, who is back in Israel after failing to make it as a musician in New York: Thomas is ill, detached, in search of hard drugs. Jonathan tries to connect with him. Meanwhile, Thomas's grandmother, facing old age, has become bitter, particularly toward her hard-working daughter. They worry about Thomas. A few blocks away, Jonathan's mother, brother and sister maintain their sometimes bickering relationships, watching Jonathan brave adulthood.

Date of release
1992-09-09
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (10)
Runtime
1h 39m
Genres
Drama
Director
Amos Guttman

Casting

Interesting facts

Amazing Grace is a 1992 Israeli film directed by Amos Guttman. The plot includes elements of Guttman's own biography; it was his last film before he died of AIDS.

Production

The film was originally envisaged as 50 minutes long, but then Guttman decided to shoot a full-length feature film instead. After he finished writing the script, he applied to various funds, including the Israel Cinema Fund, but was refused and for about a year he tried to raise the budget. Finally, a private investor who was a fan of his previous films financed the film.

In October 1991, the casting of the film was completed and the filming of the film began at the end of November 1991, with a budget of approximately one hundred thousand dollars, after a small grant was also received from the Rabinovich Foundation and Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality. The shooting of the film lasted about a month, but went over budget leaving no room for post-production edits.

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