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Alan Arkin: Family
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Arkin, whose own film career spans five decades, said he simply wants Breslin, 10, to enjoy childhood innocence. "I love her and I love her family; and I feel enough is enough," he said. "She is a kid; she needs to have a childhood."
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In it, Arkin plays Reuben Shapiro, the seedy, underhanded Jewish businessman with a penchant for delivering stolen goods as gifts to his family and hilariously misquoting scripture to suit his own purposes. Although the film remained an obscurity, Joshua delivers some of Arkin's most impressive onscreen work to date, and doubtless enabled him to pull from his own Jewish heritage in developing the character. The public's decision to snub these two pictures may have foreshadowed Arkin's work in the '90s, when he appeared in several fine, but equally overlooked, efforts.
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"Flagg" begins with a legal battle between Arkin's Flagg Purdy and Pendleton's Gus Falk over water rights in a small town in Oregon that stirs up long-simmering resentments. Having violated the air of neighborliness in the town, Flagg is quickly ostracized by his fellow residents. Feeling slighted, he takes to his bed and declares that he is dying. He sends for all of his grown children, and they descend on the family homestead to reopen old wounds.
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