Jewboy

The film tells of a young Orthodox Jewish man's struggle after the death of his father. The young man returns from Israel to find that he would prefer to leave Orthodoxy, and departs from his remaining family to become a taxi driver. He gradually assimilates into secular life, soon finding himself tempted to fornicate.

The film appears to mimic the Parable of the Prodigal Son, with the main character appearing to reconsider Orthodox life at the end of the film by reuniting with his family.

The film showed in the Un Certain Regard at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival,{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4277799/year/2005.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Jewboy |accessdate=8 December 2009|work=festival-cannes.com}} as well as in official selection in the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1633&context=jrf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}} After the presentation, Tony Krawitz, the Jewish director, and Ewen Leslie (who is not Jewish) responded to various questions, claiming that the title was not meant to be offensive, and the film had been prescreened by a Jewish audience to positive reviews.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}

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• Ewen Leslie – Yuri
• Naomi Wilson – Minnie
• Saskia Burmeister – Rivka
• Leah Vandenberg – Sarita
• Nicholas Eadie – Isaac
• Chris Haywood – Sam
• Nathan Besser – Alon
• Alice McConnell – Cheryl
• Nicholas Calafato – Jew Boy
• Kelly Butler – Woman in Taxi
• Alan Flower – STA Passenger
• Richard Green – Gary
• Jake Stone – Yossi
• Sky Tse – Chinese Man
• Adam Rosenberg – Dovid
• Shivani Dewan – Nina

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Jewboy grossed $19,118 at the box office in Australia.[http://film.vic.gov.au/resources/documents/AA4_Aust_Box_office_report.pdf Film Victoria – Australian Films at the Australian Box Office] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723234802/http://film.vic.gov.au/resources/documents/AA4_Aust_Box_office_report.pdf |date=23 July 2011 }}

• Cinema of Australia

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• {{IMDb title|id=0439646|title=Jewboy}}
• [https://archive.today/20121126232100/http://colsearch.nfsa.afc.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=yes;group=;groupequals=;holdingType=;page=0;parentid=;query=Number:637576;querytype=;rec=0;resCount=10 Jewboy at the National Film and Sound Archive]
• [http://www.jewboy.com.au official website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080105185203/http://www.jewboy.com.au/ |date=5 January 2008 }}

Category:2005 films

Category:2005 drama films

Category:2005 short films

Category:2000s Australian films

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Category:Australian drama short films

Category:Films about Orthodox and Hasidic Jews

Category:Films produced by Liz Watts

Category:English-language short films

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