Avalon

October. 05,1990      PG
Rating:
7.2
Trailer Synopsis Cast

A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.

Eve Gordon as  Dottie Krik
Lou Jacobi as  Gabriel Krichynsky
Armin Mueller-Stahl as  Sam Krichinsky
Elizabeth Perkins as  Ann Kaye
Joan Plowright as  Eva Krichinsky
Kevin Pollak as  Izzy Kirke
Aidan Quinn as  Jules Kaye
Elijah Wood as  Michael Kaye
Grant Gelt as  Teddy Kirke
Ronald Guttman as  Simka

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