Actor Jeff Goldblum Stars In 'Adam Resurrected'

Actor Jeff Goldblum plays Jewish entertainer Adam Stein in the new movie Adam Resurrected, which opens in select theaters tomorrow.

Following a trend of Holocaust-related movies, Adam Resurrected is based on the 1968 book of the same name by Israeli writer Yoram Kaniuk. Before World War II, Adam is the funniest entertainer in Germany. Later, Adam and his family are sent to a concentration camp, where he is spared by becoming Nazi Commandant Klein's (Willem Dafoe) "dog" but his wife and daughter are sent off to die.

Fifteen years later in 1961, we find Adam at a sanitarium in Israel's Negev Desert, where he is the asylum's most popular patient. There he meets a "feral boy who believes he is a dog,[which] awakens Adam's sense of self and his faith in others, both of which had been viciously stamped down in the war," acccording to Paul Schrader of the Toronto International Film Festival.

An Oscar-nominated actor, this Pennsylvania native has starred in hit films such as The Fly, Jurassic Park and Independence Day. And fans can catch him on the small screen, too, in the new season of Law and Order: Criminal Intent as he replaces actor Chris Noth as Detective Mike Logan.

WATCH THE INTERVIEW AFTER THE JUMP...