The road to formulaic romantic-comedy complications and ethic clichés is paved with good intentions in first-time filmmaker Jay Jonroy's cross-culture love story, which might as well be called "My Big Fat Kurdish Wedding."
Stateless dancer Layla (Shiva Rose) lost most of her family to Saddam Hussein's war on the Kurdish community, and now lives with relatives in Brooklyn. Having overstayed her tourist visa, she faced with deportation unless she marries an American, so her Uncle Ali and Aunt Zina (Ed Chemaly, Anna George) set about looking for a suitable husband among the exiled Kurdish community. Pampered David Fine (David Moscow), who produces a local cable...
Released:
2008
Rated:
R
Length:
106 mins