I'll be in trouble when Mrs Page finds out I saw this today with my brother, because she has been looking forward to seeing it ever since we saw the trailer a couple months ago.
Supposedly based on a true story (although that's pretty hard to believe), two young Orthodox Jews (i.e. big black hats, uncut sideburns or payot, and a myriad other apparently Biblically-accurate trappings) get tricked into smuggling ecstasy from Amsterdam to New York by a sleazy older family friend with connections to an Israeli drug cartel (who knew?)
Desperate to make extra money in order to avoid the living hell of working for his father, Jessie Eisenberg's character continues the regular transatlantic trafficking. Surprise, surprise, the road is far from smooth for "Sam and the Hasidic couriers" as the movie's post-script describes them.
Now, Bill Maher or Christopher Hitchens might end this review with some reference to all religion sending people astray, but I think these were decent guys, apart from the drugs and dodgy fashion.
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