The Good The Bad & The Holy

A Rabbi, a Lawyer and a Producer take you to the movies. Jeremy Elice, Rabbi Jonathan Morgenstern and attorney David Rivkin take on The Shawshank Redemption, Frank Darabont's 1994 directorial debut, adapted from Stephen King's novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. Tim Robbins plays Andy Dufresne, a banker sentenced to life for murders he says he didn't commit, and Morgan Freeman plays Red, the prison fixer who becomes his closest friend. The core conversation is hope, freedom and redemption: tikvah, maintaining the soul under oppression, justice versus law, and whether hope itself can become a religious obligation. The Good, the Bad and the Holy: movies through the lens of God, faith and religion.

Music: "Rock You Out" by Infraction. Music from #InAudio: https://inaudio.org/

A Rabbi, a Lawyer and a Producer take you to the movies. Jeremy Elice, Rabbi Jonathan Morgenstern and attorney David Rivkin open the series with A Few Good Men, Rob Reiner's 1992 courtroom drama, adapted by Aaron Sorkin from his own play. Tom Cruise plays a young Navy lawyer defending two Marines charged in the death of a fellow Marine at Guantanamo Bay, and Jack Nicholson is the colonel he has to take on in one of the most quoted showdowns in movie history. The core conversation is truth versus loyalty: authority, obedience, responsibility, and when following orders stops excusing moral culpability. The Good, the Bad and the Holy: movies through the lens of God, faith and religion.

Music: "Rock You Out" by Infraction. Music from #InAudio: https://inaudio.org/