Norman(2017)

R
1h 58m
- Drama
- Thriller

Release Date: Apr 14, 2017 | Limited

Norman Oppenheimer is a small time operator who befriends a young politician at a low point in his life. Three years later, when the politician becomes an influential world leader, Norman's life dramatically changes for better and worse.

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Releases

Original Release | Apr 14, 2017

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Box Office Results

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$99,211
Total US & Canada:
$3,814,868
Total International
$2,402,699
Total Worldwide:
$6,217,567

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Director & Top Cast

Joseph Cedar
Director

Lawrence Inglee

Technical Specifications

Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: Israel,United States

Language: English,Hebrew

Summaries

Storyline

Norman Oppenheimer is the President of New York based Oppenheimer Strategies. His word-of-mouth business is consulting work largely in American-Israeli business and politics, that focus due to being Jewish. Most of that work is as a fixer: doing work that others don't want to do and with which they don't want to be officially associated. In reality, Norman is a shyster, and not a very good one at that. His office is comprised of his cell phone and whatever is stuffed in his satchel which is usually slung over his shoulder as he wanders the streets. What he promises is making connections, setting up a meeting between his guy and the other guy. Generally, "his guy" is non-existent, he dropping names of people he usually doesn't know to make connections. A usual tactic he uses is to say that his deceased wife was personally connected to so-and-so, such as being a babysitter, those stories always untrue. All he needs is for one of the people that he approaches to believe a story to build that network. Not so much a story, but an act of kindness with that ulterior motive does eventually pan out as the connection of which he could have only dreamed. He is able to build off that connection to become the toast of the town, a status upon which he tries to parlay into being an even bigger fish in the pond. But the greater his exposure, the greater the potential scrutiny about him as a person, which could bring his fragile network come crumbling down around him. — Huggo