Scorpion Releasing and Kino Lorber will release on Blu-ray Joan Micklin Silver's
Hester Street (1975), starring Steven Keats, Carol Kane, Mel Howard, and Doris Roberts. The release is scheduled to arrive on the U.S. market on March 17, 2015.
Synopsis: Carol Kane (
Annie Hall, Carnal Knowledge, Dog Day Afternoon) stars with Doris Roberts (
Everybody Loves Raymond) in Joan Micklin Silver's touching tale of Gitl (Kane), a young Jewish woman who comes to America in the 1890s, only to discover that her husband, Jake (Stephen Keats, from
The Executioner's Song and
Black Sunday), has given up the ways of the old country, and taken up with a new girlfriend, and a new life. By turns heartbreaking, comic, and sharply observed, this remarkable film won Kane an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in 1975, and launched director Joan Micklin Silver's career.