Daniel Roher\u2019s new heist movie \u201cTuner\u201d is star-studded to say the least.<\/p>\n
The Jewish Canadian Academy Award-winning director\u2019s (\u201cNavalny\u201d) first narrative film stars Leo Woodall (\u201cThe White Lotus\u201d) as Niki, a gifted piano tuner, who discovers that his perfect pitch hearing also helps quickly open challenging safes.<\/p>\n
In the movie, Dustin Hoffman plays Harry Horowitz, with whom Niki works as a piano tuner; the two seem to have a really special connection, with Harry playing a surrogate father figure. When Harry gets hospitalized, Niki discovers through Harry\u2019s wife, Tovah Feldshuh\u2019s Marla, that the couple are being buried by medical bills \u2014 and he wants to help.<\/p>\n
Enter Lior Raz\u2019s Uri, a criminal Niki runs into on a job who recruits him to join his operation as a master safe-cracker. Uri\u2019s accomplices are played by Israeli actors Gil Cohen who plays Yoni, and Nissan Sakira who plays Benny, Uri\u2019s nephew.<\/p>\n
The trailer looks amazing, with Raz playing the villain perfectly, though one Israeli critic has lamented<\/a> the negative Israeli representation as a group of money-hungry criminals at such a tumultuous time, especially when put in contrast with the other, warm Jewish characters.<\/p>\n