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The Assistant   1997         N/R, 105 min. Genre: Drama Director: Daniel Petrie   Cast: Gil Bellows, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Joan Plowright, Kate Greenhouse, Jaimz Woolvett, Dick Callahan, Frank Moore, Alon Nashman, Tony Mohamed, Darlene Mignacco   Jobs are hard to find in the early 1900s, and Frank (Gil Bellows) finds a job working in a Jewish immigrant's store. Frank hooks up with a petty thief who robs the store, and now Frank feels responsible and agrees to help the store owner. In the process, love blossoms. Based on Bernard Malamud's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the film doesn't do the story justice.