Loving Leah (TV Movie 2009)

Loving Leah: Directed by Jeff Bleckner. With Lauren Ambrose, Adam Kaufman, Susie Essman, Harris Yulin. A quirky love story revolving around the unexpected wedding and unconventional married life of a 26-year-old widow and her late husband’s brother, a handsome 30-year-old cardiologist.

“As I am a secular Israeli, I would be very interested in seeing this film.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eHere, u0026quot;halitzau0026quot;, as itu0026#39;s called, is nothing romantic and cute. There is no civil marriage, so if a Jewish widow wants to remarry, she MUST have it from her bro-in-law. This has been problematic when 1) the dead husband leaves a brother under the age of thirteen or 2) brother-in-law knows that charging her for doing giving it to her or 3) dead husbands family just wants to deny her the possibility of remarriage to be mean.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI know a fellow that wanted to marry a widow, but her late husbands family were asking for an astronomical price to set her free, so they went to Cyprus to marry.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWe have the Hallmark channel, so I hope it eventually gets here.”