Holy Rollers

Holy Rollers (2010)

In 1998, 1 million ecstasy pills were smuggled into the USA by a group of Hasidic Jews.

Inspired by actual events in the late nineties when Hasidic Jews were recruited as mules to smuggle ecstasy from Europe into the United States.

Date of release
2010-05-21
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (92)
Runtime
1h 29m
Genres
Drama
Director
Kevin Asch

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: New York City

Holy Rollers is a 2010 American independent crime drama film directed by Kevin Asch and written by Antonio Macia. It stars Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Bartha, Ari Graynor, Danny A. Abeckaser and Q-Tip. The film is inspired by a true story of a young Hasidic man who was lured into the world of international drug trafficking in the late 1990s.

Production

In preparation for the film, Jesse Eisenberg, who was raised in a secular Jewish household, spent time at Lubavitch in Brooklyn, where he became bar mitzvah, and read books about Hasidic life.

Director Kevin Asch said he chose film's title Holy Rollers to reference both the protagonist's religious character and the slang term "rolling", which means to be high on ecstasy.

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