Movie Details
Theatrical Release:October 22nd, 1993
Original Language:English
In the Lost Lands
TRON: Ares
Shadow Force
Nuremberg
The Toxic Avenger Unrated
IT: Welcome to Derry
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
Wicked: For Good
Black Bag
I Can Only Imagine 2
TRON: Ares
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
Harlan Coben's Lazarus
After the Hunt
The Shvitz (1993)
Audience Score
A look at the unlikely community forged in the 200 degree heat of the last traditional steam baths in the U.S. From gamblers to "new age" masseuses, from poets to rabbis, the characters form a sometimes conflicting, yet often compelling voice. The film uses the baths to give a perspective on the evolution of city life, while bringing up issues of ethnicity, nostalgia, sexuality, spirituality and ritual. "When we sit in this intense heat", says one patron, "we're all the same - millionaire and pauper".
DirectorJonathan Berman
