Muslim teenager Hala copes with the unraveling of her family as she comes into her own.
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Minhal BaigWriter:
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Title: Hala (2019)
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2 nominations.
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Cast
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| Geraldine Viswanathan | ... | Hala Masood | |
| Jack Kilmer | ... | Jesse / Hala's boyfriend | |
| Gabriel Luna | ... | Mr. Lawrence | |
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Purbi Joshi | ... | Eram / Hala's mother |
| Azad Khan | ... | Zahid Masood | |
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Taylor Marie Blim | ... | Melanie (as Taylor Blim) |
| Anna Chlumsky | ... | Shannon Taylor | |
| Charin Alvarez | ... | Principal | |
| Sam Straley | ... | Evan | |
| Sonny Bhatt | ... | Arash | |
| Ahmed Lucan | ... | Mahmoud | |
| Alka Nayyar | ... | Hina | |
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Raven Whitley | ... | Lucy |
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Bianca Corral | ... | Sasha |
| Zayna Dib | ... | Joy | |
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Hala, a Pakistani-American teenager girl in her final year of high school is cautious with her words, but avidly curious with her eyes and ears. Floating in a limbo between two cultures, she's gently pulling back from her Muslim faith and tentatively testing her crush on Jesse, a tousled blond classmate with a sensitive soul. She's a fascinating paradox, at once subdued and adventurous: One moment, she's meekly enduring the affectionate nagging of her anxious mother Eram; the next, she's racing through their Chicago suburb on her skateboard. Written by New York Times
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teenage girl | family relationships | high school | religion | religious family |Genres:
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Written by Elisabeth Ellison and Riley Geare
Performed by Cardioid
Courtesy of Marmoset
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6 December 2019 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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I actually really enjoyed this movie because I could relate to it so much