The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974)

There’s a little bit of Duddy Kravitz in everyone.

Richard Dreyfuss (Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind) is an irresistible young Jewish man in 1948 Montreal. He’s driven by an insatiable desire to be a “somebody” and he somehow works his way into our hearts even as he cheats and schemes and connives to buy a large parcel of land. He uses the girl who loves him, he forges checks, he lies… and he is enormously proud of himself because of it. Those around him are tremendously disgusted. We are torn. There’s a little bit of Duddy Kravitz in everyone.

Directed by: Ted Kotcheff
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Jack Warden, Micheline Lanctôt, Randy Quaid, Denholm Elliott
1974/ 121 min / 1.85 / English Mono