[REL] The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick (1988)

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[REL] The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick (1988)

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095806/

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I liked this & it's always good to see a young Fairuza Balk. This is a TV rip & the quality isn't great but it's perfectly watchable.........another one worthy of a DVD release!
Its low-budget may show, and the mostly nonprofessional cast is ragged, but the Canadian made-for-TV movie The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick is a good, simple story filled with the one ingredient Hollywood too often misses: human warmth.

As played by newcomer Noam Zylberman, 12-year-old Max Glick is a minor-league Duddy Kravitz, a wise guy stuck in a flyspeck Manitoba plains town. His family, leaders of the town's tiny Jewish community, are getting ready for his bar mitzvah, but Max would rather practice four-handed piano pieces with cute Celia Brzjinski (Fairuza Balk). The conflict kicks into high gear when the Chicago rabbi the family hires — sight unseen — to prep the boy turns out to be a Hasid, a frustrated stand-up comedian, and the best thing that ever happened to Max.

At its best, the film wryly observes how every ethnic group in the melting-pot village is torn between fierce independence and the fear of attracting undue attention: the first sight of Rabbi Teitelman, with his beard, black robes, and payos, makes Max's elders groan in horror. But Rabbi Teitelman, gracefully played by Saul Rubinek, is as unorthodox in style as he is Orthodox in dress. After circling each other warily, he and Max join ranks against the closed minds of family and town.

The results are more satisfying than surprising. This is a good, small, wise movie. Ignore the uneven production values. There are things here that just can't be bought.
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File Name .......: The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick 1988 TVRip loverboy edit.avi
File Size .......: 1,382.50 MB
Duration ........: 01:35:11
Video Codec .....: XviD MPEG-4 codec
Video Bitrate ...: 1902 KB/s
Resolution ......: 640 x 480
Aspect Ratio ....: 1.33:1
Framerate .......: 23.976 FPS
Audio Codec .....: MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3)
Audio Bitrate ...: 128 KB/s (CBR)
Channels ........: 2 Ch
Language .......: ENGLISH

Not my rip although I've cleaned up the video & audio a bit.......my thanks to the originator.

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i just nabbed this from megaupload,a boyscout post.different size from LB's.
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Re: [REL] The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick (1988)

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starfish21 wrote: Like this post to see ed2k links  [1.32 Gb]

i just nabbed this from megaupload,a boyscout post.different size from LB's.
Of course it's a different size, loverboy's file is one he himself cleaned up from another source. Based on past experience, it would not surprise me one bit if this file is the original source loverboy started with before he fixed the problems he saw. Just a guess though.
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I gave up on the mux.

We have both the original English audio and the French dub. Different start times won't stop me from muxing audio, but even with the beginning synced the audio gradually drifted out of sync. So I guess one version had a few more frames than the other. It would have been nice to mux because the French version has a somewhat better video bitrate, although both are unrestored 1080p. The first three screencaps are from the French, the second three from the English.

1080p. Choice of English or French videos:

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