Amreeka
Life's best adventures are journeys of the heart.
Life's best adventures are journeys of the heart.
Drama
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2009
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Eager to provide a better future for her son, Fadi, divorcée Muna Farah leaves her Palestinian homeland and takes up residence in rural Illinois -- just in time to encounter the domestic repercussions of America's disastrous war in Iraq. Now, the duo must reinvent their lives with some help from Muna's sister, Raghda, and brother-in-law, Nabeel.
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Rated:
PG-13
Runtime:
96 min
Release date:
17 Jun 2009
Country:
CA, JO, KW, AE, US
Languages:
Arabic, English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$2,176,304
Awards:
9 wins & 18 nominations.
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Director Cherien Dabis' debut feature is a surprising, humorous, moving and very human story about a Palestinian family's emigration to Illinois on the eve of the Iraq war.
– Colin Covert,
Minneapolis Star Tribune,
15 Oct 2009
fresh:
Amreeka makes its points with gentle humour and engaging performances -- especially Faour, who makes Muna so likeable it's impossible not to cross your fingers and hope her luck is about to change.
– Linda Barnard,
Toronto Star,
30 Oct 2009
fresh:
A feel-good comedy about a Palestinian mother who moves to rural Illinois with her teenaged son, Amreeka is a kind of stealth political film that confronts issues of ethnic tension and American xenophobia.
– Liam Lacey,
Globe and Mail,
30 Oct 2009
rotten:
Writer-director Cherien Dabis too easily resolves or dismisses the characters' problems, making way for an upbeat ending.
– Andrea Gronvall,
Chicago Reader,
18 Dec 2009
fresh:
You'll end up baffled that a film built on such shaky foundations can end up being so impossibly sweet.
– David Jenkins,
Time Out,
10 May 2011