The Substance of Fire

Doing What Is Right... Could Cost Him Everything.

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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.

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Cast

Tony Goldwyn actor Timothy Hutton actor Ron Rifkin actor Sarah Jessica Parker actor Lee Grant actor

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Elizabeth Franz actor

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Benjamin Ungar actor Roger Rees actor Viola Davis actor Adolph Green actor Debra Monk actor

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Tom McDermott actor George Morfogen actor

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Andrew Pang actor

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Edmund Ikeda actor Gil Bellows actor Eric Bogosian actor Ronny Graham actor

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John Sullivan actor

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Sophia Salguero actor