   Forgot your password?    Brother's Shadow  TFF 2006 Narrative
Feature  Photos and Video   Synopsis Collapse  Jake's (Scott
Cohen) parole officer tells him he's like a cat that's already
used up eight lives, hanging on to his hope, and his freedom, by
a fingernail. Before relocating from rural Alaska to Brooklyn,
he's warned that one more slip up at work or with alcohol and he
will be going back to jail. Much to Jake's misfortune, his trip
home poses far more challenges than he bargained for. His
brother is dead, his father (Judd Hirsch) and sister-in-law
(Susan Floyd) greet him with skepticism and disdain, and his
nephew struggles to connect with Jake, a man who disappeared
from the neighborhood a decade ago without a trace. In this
moving story about a lost man trying to step out of his
brother's shadow, writer and director Todd S. Yellin introduces
a cascading series of challenges and heartaches that eventually
bring Jake to the brink of emotional despair. He valiantly takes
over the family's furniture b