The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (Ted Kotcheff, 1974)

It’s the post WWII era. Taxi driver Max Kravitz, who pimps on the side, lives with his two grown sons - early twenty-something medical student Lennie Kravitz, and late teen Duddy Kravitz, who has just graduated from high school - in the working class Jewish neighborhood of Montréal. Lennie receives all the positive attention from family and others of authority in the neighborhood, especially from Max’s businessman brother, their Uncle Benjy, who is financing Lennie’s medical school education, while Duddy is