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  1. Loving Leah. Rent Loving Leah on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, or buy it on Fandango at Home, Prime Video. To honor an ancient custom, a doctor (Adam Kaufman) agrees to marry the widow (Lauren ...

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    • Jeff Bleckner
    • TV-PG
    • Lauren Ambrose
  2. Oct 12, 2011 · After a strange dream in which his brother Benjamin appears to him, Jake receives a phone call from his mother (Mercedes Ruehl) that Ben recently passed away. Attending his brother’s funeral, Jakes meets his brother’s widow, Leah (Lauren Ambrose). Even in the constraints her faith places on her, Leah stands out as being different and Jake ...

  3. Jan 25, 2009 · Loving Leah: Directed by Jeff Bleckner. With Lauren Ambrose, Adam Kaufman, Susie Essman, Harris Yulin. A quirky love story revolving around the unexpected wedding and unconventional married life of a 26-year-old widow and her late husband's brother, a handsome 30-year-old cardiologist.

    • (3.6K)
    • Drama, Romance
    • Jeff Bleckner
    • 2009-01-25
  4. Permalink. In the orthodox Jewish faith, when a man dies, the wife is supposed to marry his single brother, if there is any. In order to avoid such a marriage, there is a nasty ritual that the man and woman has to go through. This is the case in "Loving Leah." The film is somewhat unrealistic.

  5. Leah Lever is the late-twenties widow of Rabbi Benjamin Lever who has died young. Things become complicated when Jake (a non-practicing Jew) comes to his late brother’s Hasidic community for his funeral service and is asked by the community elders to perform a levirate marriage.

  6. A quirky love story revolving around the unexpected wedding and unconventional married life of a 26-year-old widow and her late husband's brother, a handsome 30-year-old cardiologist.

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  8. A handsome Washington, D.C. doctor and a young New York woman fall in love at an unusual time…after they get married. Leah Lever is married to an Orthodox rabbi, Benjamin Lever, whose brother, Jake is a successful cardiologist and a non-practicing Jew. Jake is stunned when Benjamin dies suddenly, but not as stunned as when he is told that ...

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