Loving Leah

Loving Leah is a romantic-comedy adaptation of the theater play, of the same name, by playwright P'Nenah Goldstein.

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When Leah Lever's (Lauren Ambrose) Hasidic rabbi husband dies, she meets her brother-in-law Jake Lever (Adam Kaufman) for the first time. An ancient Jewish Levirate marriage law proclaims that a single male sibling must marry a childless wife of a deceased Jewish male, to carry on his name. The only way to avoid the marriage is to be a part of a ceremony that denies the deceased man's existence. The story finds Leah and Jake in a loveless marriage, and follows them as they grow to know and love one another.InterfaithFamily.com: Interfaith... (January 20, 2009)

• Lauren Ambrose as Leah Lever
• Adam Kaufman as Jake Lever
• Mercedes Ruehl as Janice Lever
• Susie Essman as Malka
• Ricki Lake as Gerry
• Natasha Lyonne as Esther
• Christy Pusz as Carol

"In a nutshell, two people who have absolutely no romantic attraction to each other are forced into close proximity. The romance creeps up on them."— Mercades RuehlLoving Leah

"When you think about it, it's Romeo and Juliet. Right? Two people from totally different worlds who aren't supposed to be together, come together anyway. The difference in our story is that nobody dies in the end!"—Adam KaufmanLoving Leah