THE APPRENTICESHIP OF DUDDY KRAVITZ / THE APPRENTICESHIP OF DUDDY KRAVITZ

In Montréal in 1948, 19-year-old Duddy Kravitz (Richard Dreyfuss) meets his cab-driver father, Max (Jack Warden) at a local café. Max is singing the praises of Jerry Dingleman (Henry Ramer), the local "Boy Wonder" who escaped Montréal's Jewish ghetto and became rich. Duddy listens intently and dreams of being a somebody like Dingleman. Shortly thereafter, his grandfather tells him that "a man without land is nobody," and Duddy decides that someday he will buy the lake near the Jewish summer resort which employs him. While at the resort, Duddy falls in love with co-worker Yvette (Micheline Lanctôt) and soon involves her in his restless search and endless schemes to raise money.