Either I majorly missed something or the movie just does not tell the audience, if both families inherit anything at all in the end. So do they all just reunite being wealthy or is the reunion itself the happy ending, but no bakshish for no one?
shareMy take is that there is no fortune, instead the family finds together (some -- the cousins -- more than others) and notorious freebird Jaeckie eventually manages to embrace his "Jewish identity". Typical saccharine Hollywood ending, if you ask me.
shareIn the end, Zucker says something like "I bet you thought she just had worthless stocks. I thought so too but take a chance to get a chance." which said to me that the final twist was that they DID get money even though the expectation was they wouldn't.
shareNo, they hardly got anything. To correct the previous statement, he actually says:
Did you expect anything else than a worthless pile of stocks? be honest! I did! I did believe in it ... I had no chance, but I (still) took it ...
Well the last part is difficult to translate ...
I support you there... If I remember correctly they inherited basically nothing. I would argue that the idea of inheritance was a ploy used by their dead mother to bring the two brothers back together.
shareInterestingly enough my husband thought they did inherit some money & I didn't. We replayed the end several times trying to figure it out. We concluded that it was left to the viewer to decide. Of course because we were reading subtitles, we easily could have missed the point. I do think that is it interesting that people had different opinions about the ending.
shareThere was virtually no money. The Rabbi says "at least it is a positive amount - she could have left you debts" and then Jackie says: "Did you expect that she had more than a pile of worthless stocks?"
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