Filmmaker Varun Khanna's family drama explores the consequences of an especially brutal clash of values between immigrant parents and American-born children. On the surface, Sahira Abdel-Karim (Ruth Osuna) appears to be the very picture of an immigrant-family success story: She lives with her Egyptian-born, Muslim father, Mohammed (Wadie Andrawis), and her American mother, who converted and took the name Noor (Laurel Melagrano), in a tidy home in a Southern California suburb. Beautiful, intelligent Sahira — Sahi to her friends — is a quick-witted and outgoing medical student who appears to have found a comfortable balance between the time-honored customs of modesty a...
Released:
2005
Rated:
NR
Length:
100 mins