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- 96 Minutes
- National Geographic
- Language English
- Country USA
- Rated: PG-13
- Format: Widescreen
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- Directed by Cherien Dabis
- Written by Cherien Dabis
- Starring Hiam Abbass, Melkar Muallem, Nisreen Faour
Muna, a single mother in Ramallah, has applied for a visa to the US. When it comes, her son Fadi, an excellent student, convinces her they should go. After an incident at customs begins their exile badly, they join Muna's sister and family in Illinois. Muna needs a job: although she has two degrees and 15 years' experience in banking, she settles for work at White Castle, telling the family her job is at a nearby bank. It's spring, 2003, and the US invades Iraq. While friends come from unlikely places, Fadi meets prejudice at school. How he'll respond to it and to American youth culture and how Muna will sort things out with her family are the rest of the story.
"This piquant film brings a keen and serious eye as well as that feeling for affectionate human comedy to this fraught situation, smartly avoiding both stridency and sentimentality in the process -- it's an elegant balancing act." -- Kenneth Turan, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
(Read more)- More on Amreeka:
- Official film Web site
- Interview with director Dabis Cherien
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