Alan Douglass

Ben Douglass wants to reignite pride in his home city of Newcastle after discovering that not everything is as worth being proud of as he once thought. However, is his idea of a mass sing-a-long enough to spark a change?

When their high school drama department falls victim to budget cuts, two teachers from the Bronx find an unlikely solution to their money problems: yaniv, a little-known card game with a thriving underground gambling scene in the Hasidic Jewish community.