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User Rating:
7.3/10   810 votes
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Writers:
Stefan C. Schaefer (story)
Stefan C. Schaefer (written by)
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Release Date:
9 January 2009 (Brazil) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama | Romance more
Tagline:
Friendship Has No Religion
Plot:
ARRANGED centers on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
6 wins more
User Comments:
Better Romantic Comedy Than Most more (14 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Zoe Lister Jones ... Rochel Meshenberg
Francis Benhamou ... Nasira Khaldi
Mimi Lieber ... Sheli Meshenberg

John Rothman ... Matan Meshenberg

Sarah Lord ... Naomi Meshenberg
Trevor Braun ... Avi Meshenberg
Doris Belack ... Elona

Laith Nakli ... Abdul-Halim Khaldi
Jason Liebman ... Gideon

Marcia Jean Kurtz ... Principal Jacoby

Peggy Gormley ... Miriam
David Castro ... Eddie

Sanjit De Silva ... Jamil

Daniel London ... Elliot

Max Shulman ... Seth
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
USA:90 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Hebrew | Arabic
Color:
Color
Certification:
Singapore:PG | Brazil:12 | Argentina:13
Filming Locations:
New York City, New York, USA
Company:
Cicala Filmworks more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The film is loosely based on the experiences of Executive Producer Yuta Silverman, an Orthodox Jew who befriended a Pakistani Muslim woman through the public schools in Brooklyn. more
Goofs:
Continuity: In the scene with both women in the car (on the way to the cemetery), the items on the back window (behind Rochel) change position from cut to cut - most notable is a newspaper. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Teacher: We're forced to handle the challenges of ESL. Different cultural traditions, everything they enter the classroom with, serious family dysfunctions. Basically our schools, New York city schools, are one big experiment, one big laboratory in this exercise we call the American Experience...
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User Comments

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14 out of 16 people found the following comment useful.
Better Romantic Comedy Than Most, 5 January 2008
9/10
Author: intelearts from the big screen

This is a delightful and thoughtful comedy.

Two supposedly diametrically opposed worlds meet in Rochel (Zoe Lister-Jones) an orthodox Jew and Nasira (Francis Benhamou) a Muslim.

Both woman are teachers who find that as they both have to find their husbands through the arranged marriage process they have more in common with each other than the secular world.

The delight is that is is a pretty straight-up great romantic comedy - Rochel keeps being set up with the wrong guys, Nasira gets the embarrassing dinner etc; of course, the road to true love is not smooth...

It really is very funny, witty - and well acted, especially Francis Benhamou as Nasira, who is stunning and positively lights up the screen with her smile.

Just a lovely film that deserves all the play it can get, and definitely deserves to be seen by anyone who loves romantic comedies.

Warmly recommended.

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