Dec

2 2025

Reading Jewish Film Series: Charles Grodin

7:00PM - 8:30PM  

Goggleworks Center for the Arts
https://goggleworks.org/films/charles-grodin-rebel-with-a-cause/ 201 Washington St.
Reading, PA 19601

Contact Vicki Graff
6109210624
[email protected]

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Charles Grodin: Rebel with a Cause

1h 32m, Documentary

Raised in a Jewish household in Pittsburgh, Charles Grodin’s life embodied the concept of Tikkun Olam. The film not only celebrates Charles Grodin’s hilarious acting career, but also his remarkable, decades-long, successful fight to get wrongly convicted people — most of whom were mothers of color with young children — out of prison.

The film includes interviews with Robert De Niro, Steve Martin, Martin Short, Elaine May, Carol Burnett, Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Alan Arkin, Ellen Burstyn, Marc Maron, Lewis Black, Marlo Thomas, Jon Lovitz, plus several of the women Chuck got released from prison.

Directed by James L. Freedman