Rating: R
Genre:
Comedy
Theatrical Release: 12/19/2003(USA
Release Date: 11/16/2004
Dubbed: English
Sound: DS
Run Time: 85 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Profanity, Drug Content
Distributor/Studio: Paramount
He's hip, he's fly, and he never mixes meat with dairy -- he's the world's first Jewish private eye, and he's out to save the world in this
satiric comedy.
Mordechai Jefferson Carver (
Adam Goldberg) is a super-cool Jewish detective who takes no mess and is always ready to do the right thing for his Torah-reading brothers. But
Carver is a lone wolf, and he isn't so sure he's interested in taking an assignment from
Chief Bloomenbergansteinthal (
Peter Coyote) of the Jewish Justice League -- or at least not until he meets the Chief's gorgeous daughter,
Esther (
Judy Greer). It seems a mysterious stranger named
Damien (
Andy Dick) has made it his business to persuade Jewish children to abandon their faith in favor of celebrating Christmas, and it's
Carver's job to find out who is behind
Damien's campaign while urging kids to be proud of their Semitic heritage. In time,
Carver learns that
Damien is actually doing the dirty work of his sinister stepfather,
Santa Claus (
Richard Riehle).
The Hebrew Hammer also features
Nora Dunn as
Carver's kvetching mother, and a cameo appearance by
Melvin Van Peebles as outlaw
blaxploitation icon
Sweetback.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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A reviewer
from Massachusettes
Oy Vey this I like....
Yes, I am Jewish, and yes this is one HILLARIOUS movie. It really makes fun of all the stereotypes we grew up with.
;)
