The Substance of Fire

The Substance of Fire (1996)

Drama

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.

Director: Daniel J. Sullivan
Writer: Jon Robin Baitz

Casts

	Tony Goldwyn as Aaron Geldhart
	Timothy Hutton as Martin Geldhart
	Ron Rifkin as Isaac Geldhart
	Sarah Jessica Parker as Sarah Geldhart
	Lee Grant as Cora Cahn
	Elizabeth Franz as Miss Barzakian
	Benjamin Ungar as Young Issac
	Roger Rees as Max
	Viola Davis as Nurse
	Adolph Green as Mr. Musselblatt
	Debra Monk as Martha Hackett
	Tom McDermott as Old Printer
	George Morfogen as Otto the Printer
	Andrew Pang as Mr. Otani Jr
	Edmund Ikeda as Mr. Otani Sr
	Gil Bellows as Val Chenard
	Eric Bogosian as Gene Byck
	Ronny Graham as Louis Foukold
	John Sullivan as Stewart
	Sophia Salguero as Rachel
	John Patrick Walker as Peter
	David S. Howard as Dr. Bernard Kramer
	Gregory Burke as Young Martin Geldhart
	William Cain as Mr. Cox
	Alec Mapa as New Receptionist
	Edgar Martinez as Miquel
	John Christopher Jones as Book Binder
	Dick Latessa as Mr. McCormack Sr
	Patrick Page as Mr. McCormack Jr
	Kate Forbes as Rizzoli Book Buyer
	Gloria Irizarry as Esme
	Barbara Eda-Young as Reena Geldhart
	Matt McGrath as Young Book Clerk
	José Ramón Rosario as Dennis the Tailor
	William Meisle as Customer with Shoes
	Gina Torres as Maitre d'
	Marc Schneier as Rabbi
	Lynn Clayton as Beautiful Woman
	Mary Fortune as Art Student (uncredited)
	David Boston as Sign Painter (uncredited)

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