Mercedes Ruehl does an especially fine job as Jake's mother. Susie Essman plays Leah's mother as abrasive (but in New York City, that's actually love) and intolerant (would an on screen Jewish mother be anything else?). I especially liked Ricki Lake as the female rabbi who helps Leah find answers in a new community of faith. Lauren Ambrose is pleasant enough, and she is attractive but very plain, though she has beautiful hair (it's actually a wig). The leading actors in this movie all do a good job. But wait: why does this movie have the title that it does? Maybe there is hope after all. The 'marriage' appears unlikely to succeed. The one she finds is very different from the one in Brooklyn instead of lots of men with black hats and beards, this temple has a female rabbi. Very devout and conservative, she also seeks out a place of worship. Leah wanted to leave Brooklyn anyway she wants to go to college and investigates the possibility. So they have to go through the motions to keep up the charade. Meanwhile, there is an additional complication: the mothers of Jake and Leah don't know the marriage is fake. Still, you can imagine how this makes Carol feel. So he goes through with a sham marriage and moves Leah into his very masculine Georgetown apartment, giving her the other bedroom. The words Jake is forced to say would require him to denounce his brother, which he can't do. Neither Jake nor Leah wants to do this, but a halizah ceremony is required to release Jake from his obligation. He finds out that he obligated by scripture (Deuteronomy 25:5) to marry Benjamin's widow Leah. Jake goes to Brooklyn to attend the funeral. Jake then finds out Benjamin is deceased. They used to be close, as shown in flashbacks. Jake, who grew up Jewish but is no longer observant, dreams that he sees his brother Benjamin, a rabbi who he has not kept in touch with, telling him everything is now all right between them. Carol is pretty and seems to work at the hospital, but I'm not sure what she does. He is engaged to Carol, who he met at the hospital when they were having lunch at the same time. Jake is a Washington, D.C., physician who has been accepted into a fellowship program.

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