The Substance of Fire
Drama
Doing What Is Right... Could Cost Him Everything.
Isaac Geldhart is a Holocaust survivor who, overcome by grief at the recent death of his wife, seems determined to run his publishing firm into the ground by printing books that have no hope of financial success. His son Aaron, who also works at the company, grows frustrated with Isaac's emotional decline and attempts to take over the firm. The resulting crisis involves Isaac's other two children, his daughter Sarah and his dying son Martin.
1996-09-11
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Cast
Tony Goldwyn as Aaron Geldhart
Timothy Hutton as Martin Geldhart
Ron Rifkin as Isaac Geldhart
Sarah Jessica Parker as Sarah Geldhart
Lee Grant as Cora Cahn
Elizabeth Franz as Miss Barzakian
Roger Rees as Max
Viola Davis as Nurse
Adolph Green as Mr. Musselblatt
Debra Monk as Martha Hackett
Tom McDermott as Old Printer
George Morfogen as Otto the Printer
Andrew Pang as Mr. Otani Jr
Edmund Ikeda as Mr. Otani Sr
Gil Bellows as Val Chenard
Eric Bogosian as Gene Byck
Ronny Graham as Louis Foukold
William Cain as Mr. Cox
Alec Mapa as New Receptionist
John Christopher Jones as Book Binder
Dick Latessa as Mr. McCormack Sr
Patrick Page as Mr. McCormack Jr
Gloria Irizarry as Esme
Barbara Eda-Young as Reena Geldhart
Matt McGrath as Young Book Clerk
José Ramón Rosario as Dennis the Tailor
Gina Torres as Maitre d'
David Boston as Sign Painter (uncredited)