Awake and Sing (1972)

The Bergers a bluecollar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depression struggle through hard times and dream of a better future in this 1972 production of Clifford Odets pungent play Personalities and politics clash as Odets mélange of characters try to survive on pennies a day Walter Matthau plays cynical World War I amputee Moe Axelrod and Leo Fuchs portrays the familys ironwilled leftist grandfather