Focus

In the waning months of World War II, a man and his wife are mistakenly identified as Jews by their anti-Semitic Brooklyn neighbors. Suddenly the victims of religious and racial persecution, they find themselves aligned with a local Jewish immigrant in a struggle for dignity and survival. Characterized by its stylized portrayal of 1940s Brooklyn, "Focus" is a drama film that explores themes of prejudice, xenophobia, and tolerance, as told through the story of Lawrence 'Larry' Newman (William H. Macy) and his wife Gertrude 'Gert' Hart (Laura Dern).