Awake and Sing!
The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depression, struggle through hard times and dream of a better future in this 1972 production of Clifford Odets' pungent play. Personalities and politics clash as Odets' mélange of characters try to survive on pennies a day. Walter Matthau plays cynical World War I amputee Moe Axelrod, and Leo Fuchs portrays the family's iron-willed leftist grandfather.
Top Cast

Walter Matthau
as Moe Axelrod

Ron Rifkin
as Sam Feinschreiber

Felicia Farr
as Hennie

Martin Ritt
as Uncle Morty
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