Holy Rollers — Film Review. With a narrative based on news accounts about Hasidic Jews smuggling ecstasy into the U.S. from Europe during the '90s, "Holy Rollers" squanders a fascinating premise ...

Being the fact-based tale of a Hasidic Jewish youth from Brooklyn who joins an international Ecstasy-smuggling ring, the cleverly titled “Holy Rollers” would seem to promise a more dramatic ...

Holy Rollers: The True Story of ... Darren Lindsay; animation, Scott McKenzie. Reviewed at Seattle Film Festival (Northwest Connections), June 12, 2011. Running time: 93 MIN.

More interesting than arresting, Kevin Asch’s debut film Holy Rollers — one of the more buzzed-about features to emerge from this year’s Sundance Film Festival — provides us with a richly ...

A sheltered Jewish teenager is seduced by the glitz of the underworld after becoming a drugs mule. It’s a familiar premise and Holy Rollers sprinkles precisely nothing new into the roll-up. In ...

Posted in Film Holy Rollers R • 1 hour 29 min • 2010 by Cliff Doerksen June 3, 2010 August 24, 2021. Share this: Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) ...

“Holy Rollers,” a new film based on the true story of a Hasidic ecstasy-smuggling ring in the late 1990s, is not only a bad movie, but also an offensive one. Not because it shows Hasidim doing ...

The subject of “Holy Rollers,” Hasidic Jews working as drug runners, sounds like a punch line, but it’s based on a true story. In 1999, an Israeli-born man pleaded guilty in a Brooklyn court ...

Holy Rollers tells the true story of a drug trafficking scheme that used trustworthy Hasidim to evade customs officials in the United States and Europe. The film centers on Sam Gold (Jesse ...

Ahead of Friday's long awaited UK release of the Jewish crime drama Holy Rollers, What Culture! talks To Kevin Asch who won the Breakthrough Director gong at the 2010 Gotham Awards for his work on ...

In preparation for his upcoming film, “Holy Rollers,” based on actual events in the late 1990s, when members of the Hasidic community were recruited as drug mules, actor Jesse Eisenberg, 26 ...

Meet Danny A. Abeckaser, the 37-year-old night-club owner/actor-cum producer of “Holy Rollers,” an indie film about Brooklyn Chasidim who serve as drug mules to transport ecstasy from Europe ...