Murray lives with Othella and her children, one of whom gets head lice. Murray takes the boy to Avigal, the attractive widow of a Hasidic rabbi, for treatment. Murray tells Avigal about Fioravante, claiming he's a massage healer who can help her, before taking her to see him.

Apr 18, 2014 · Early in the picture Murray has to have one of the kids’ head checked for lice, and he takes all four boys on a journey to the Hassidic section of Williamsburg, which raises some eyebrows among the locals.

FADING GIGOLO is a well-directed and acted comedy with some crude subject matter. Woody Allen plays Murray, a rare-books storeowner who has to close his business, while he has a younger black wife and children to support.

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Dec 27, 2023 · At the watch shop where he works, he gets a call that his estranged father, Giacomo (Christian De Sica) has died. He runs to the hospital, and finds his dad, who had a heart attack but is...

May 2, 2014 · For his fifth feature as a writer-director, John Turturro casts himself as an unmoored middle-aged New Yorker convinced by a crackpot friend to offer sexual services to women in exchange for money. The premise is played both for comedy and for poignant drama.

Apr 18, 2014 · His new film, Fading Gigolo, is a hymn to the healing sensuous touch. He has cast himself as a diffident, gentle Manhattan florist named Fioravante who’s tapped by his friend Murray (Woody...

Apr 18, 2014 · Avigal (Paradis), the widow of an esteemed Hasidic rabbi with six kids and sad eyes, factors in a bit later, but she’s a game-changer. The movie’s fun comes in the teasing repartee between the...

Apr 18, 2014 · Bob Mondello reviews the new Fading Gigolo, a surprisingly sweet dramedy in which John Turturro plays the gigolo, Woody Allen plays his pimp, and things don't go nearly as wrong as they could.

May 2, 2014 · Review: For his fifth time behind the camera, writer/director John Turturro brings to the screen another off-kilter slice of life dramedy that is advertised as being about one thing (man becomes gigolo) but is really about something totally different.