Amos Kollek (1947 - )
By genre: American cinema - director
Anna Thomson (right) in Sue (1997) - Amos Kollek
Biography
Amos Kollek is a film director, writer and actor, born in Jerusalem, Israel in 1947. He is the son of the long-time mayor of Jerusalem, Teddy Kollek, about whom he also made a film. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Kollek [Oct 2005]
Fast Food Fast Women (2000) - Amos Kollek [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]
Louise Lasser and Robert Modicka put their hearts into the story of a 60-ish couple trying to make a go of it, regardless of his friends' ridicule and her low self-esteem. Their honest acting nearly gives this failed attempt at a Woody Allen-style episode of Friends needed humanity. The problem? Lasser and Modicka are not the lead actors in this film, whose tritely punning title is about the extent of writer-director Amos Kollek's wit. Anna Thomson is the ostensible heroine in this story about the denizens of a New York City diner and their romantic travails. The 35-year-old waitress, unlucky in life and love, seems such a candidate for long-term therapy that her unconventional outlook isn't so much profoundly sympathetic as simply pathetic. Kollek also stretches credulity by allowing a sex-show performer to melt at the badgering appearances of one of her "clients," the creepiest of the whole lot. --Kevin Filipski for amazon.com
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