Holy Rollers: Based On A True Story

Holy Rollers is a new release of 2010 that is based on the participation of orthodox Jewish citizens of New York in the smuggling of ecstasy from Europe into the United States. With this true situation as a foundation, the film explores the involvement of a young Hasid named Sam Gold, a completely fictional character.

Introduced at the Sundance Film Festival in January, the movie is a psychological thriller rated R. It is in theaters over the summer and will be available on DVD in October. It has had mixed reviews, but more patrons recommend it than not.

As Sam gets older and nearer to his fate, he begins to chafe at the restraints imposed on him by his family’s expectations. Sam has a talent for business and sees ways that the family fortunes could improve, but his father refuses to allow him to take an active part in commerce, urging him to devote himself to the study of the Torah. Sam, however, is beginning to realize that he may not be rabbi material, and is unsettled enough to recruited by the older brother of a friend to make money by bringing ‘medicine’ into the US from Europe.

Although his friend recoils from the truth that they have been used as mules for the drug dealers, and the ‘medicine’ is actually an illegal chemical, Sam has been intrigued by the glimpses he has gotten of a totally different world. One boy goes back to rabbinical studies, while the other goes on with the smuggling.

Sam is seduced by money and excitement to continue walking on the dark side, where his business instincts are recognized and appreciated. He is soon deep in a double life and gradually loses his faith, his family, and his community. He also begins to experiment with the drugs he is smuggling and falls in love with the beautiful but doomed girlfriend of the drug lord he works for.

Sam is unable to keep his clandestine activities from his family and his community. As the life of his childhood unravels, he becomes closer to the new people in his life, only to realize that they are embroiled in conflict and despair that he cannot resolve. His own conflict is whether to turn back to the old life or continue down a road he now knows leads to destruction.

The decisions the maturing youth must make, and the dangers he faces as he does so, are the climax of this emotional thriller. It is rated R and has received both good and bad reviews in almost equal number; more of those who have seen it give it a thumbs up than the number of those who do not recommend it.

The name of the drug is the key to the title of the film. This was a derisive term coined to describe pentecostal Christians who become ecstatic during worship, which is now sometimes used proudly by the very ones it was meant to mock. Users of the street drug seek to attain a state of euphoria by using an illegal chemical.

Holy Rollers is an emotionally charged film starring Jesse Eisenberg as the boy who must become a man to escape the danger his innocence led him into and where his weaknesses entrap him.

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