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Director:
Writer (WGA):
Cherien Dabis (written by)
Release Date:
17 June 2009 (France)
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Tagline:
Life's best adventures are journeys of the heart.
Plot:
A drama centered on an immigrant single mother and her teenage son in small town Illinois. | add synopsis
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2 wins
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Bit of a clods eye view of a hill of beans
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Cast
(Credited cast)| Nisreen Faour | ... | Muna Farah | |
| Melkar Muallem | ... | Fadi Farah | |
| Hiam Abbass | ... | Raghda Halaby | |
| Alia Shawkat | ... | Salma | |
| Jenna Kawar | ... | Rana Halaby | |
| Selena Haddad | ... | Lamis Halaby | |
| Yussuf Abu-Warda | ... | Nabeel Halaby | |
| Joseph Ziegler | ... | Mr. Novatski | |
| Andrew Sannie | ... | James | |
| Daniel Boiteau | ... | Mike | |
| Brodie Sanderson | ... | Matt | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Aaron Hughes | ... | Police Officer #1 | |
| Arne MacPherson | ... | Mike's Dad | |
| Craig Matthews | ... | Police officer #2 | |
| Vanessa Mayberry | ... | Sammy | |
| Mike O'Brien | ... | Bank Manager #1 | |
| Adriana O'Neil | ... | Female Bank Manager | |
| Bradley Sawatzky | ... | Parkton Bank Manager | |
| Kristen Sawatzky | ... | Female Official | |
| Glen Thompson | ... | Nelson | |
| Will Woytowich | ... | US Airport Customs Official | |
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Rated PG-13 for brief drug use involving teens, and some language.
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USA:96 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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USA:PG-13 (certificate #45380) |
Canada:PG (British Columbia) |
Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) |
Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) |
Canada:14A (Manitoba/Ontario) |
Canada:G (Quebec)
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An interesting film. I think the film explores the idea that sometimes folk are unfairly persecuted for their ethnic backgrounds in new countries. That happens to Arabs now in North America but it has happened to many not Arabic immigrants in North America in the past also. I also think that the effects of war in the Arab world are only now being seen easily on the street level in the sense that now there are many Arabs living in places that have never seen an Arabic person until recently. Is that a 'racist' comment? Its not like Islam is an oppressive religion or anything, they are very open and not sexist.Not. Well, I suppose there are those who are more easygoing than others. Nonetheless and quite frankly, things were bad enough without someone from a country still in the middle ages in terms of its social structure being in a position to judge me and alter the direction of anything in my life, in my homeland of North America. Thats racism? Well, that situation couldn't even be remotely possible if things had been dealt with properly-in a not violent way pertaining to the situation of weapons of mass confusion in the Iraq of post 9/11. I can talk with politeness with someone who is from an Arabic country but I will never really trust them. That is truth, not racism, based on empirical observation of two 110 story buildings crashing down killing 3000 people. Don't say it doesn't matter.