The Substance of Fire (1996)
Doing What Is Right... Could Cost Him Everything.
97 min
Isaac Geldhart is a Holocaust survivor who, overcome by grief at the recent death of his wife, seems determined to run his publishing firm into the ground by printing books that have no hope of financial success. His son Aaron, who also works at the company, grows frustrated with Isaac's emotional decline and attempts to take over the firm. The resulting crisis involves Isaac's other two children, his daughter Sarah and his dying son Martin.
- Release date
- September 11, 1996
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Joseph Vitarelli
Trailer
Cast
- Tony Goldwyn as Aaron Geldhart
- Benjamin Ungar as Young Isaac Geldhart
- Timothy Hutton as Martin Geldhart
- Tom McDermott as Old Printer
- Sarah Jessica Parker as Sarah Geldhart
- George Morfogen as Otto the printer
- Ron Rifkin as Isaac Geldhart
- Lee Grant as Cora Cahn
- Andrew Pang as Mr. Otani jr
- Edmund Ikeda as Mr. Otani sr
Crew
- Daniel J. Sullivan · Director
- Jon Robin Baitz · Writer
- Jon Robin Baitz · Producer
- Randy Finch · Producer
- Ron Kastner · Producer
- Joseph Vitarelli · Composer
- Robert D. Yeoman · Cinematographer
- Pamela Martin · Editor
- Meg Simon · Casting director
- John Lee Beatty · Production designer