Amreeka Review

 Amazon.com: Amreeka : Yussuf Abu-Warda, Hiam Abbass, Jeff Sutton, Alia Shawkat, Amer Hlehel, Nisreen Faour, Joseph Ziegler, Melkar Muallem, Selena Haddad, Jenna Kawar, Suheila Muallem, Brodie Sanderson, Andrew Sannie, Daniel Boiteau, Miriam

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release date: September 4, 2009
Director: Cherien Dabis
Producers: Christina Piovesan, Al-Zain Sabah, Paul Barkin 
Main Cast: Melkar Muallem, Nisreen Faour, Hiam Abbass, Jenna Kawar, Alia Kawar

Although an overall predictable movie, I give this film five stars. I was actually so excited to watch Amreeka when I see that it starred Hiam Abbas, I have loved her in other shows and she was just as good in this. I found to be the mother son dynamic to be very relatable which made it even more enjoyable to watch. This film highland a struggle that is very commonly found in immigrant families, but not talked about enough. Despite the fact that the mother had two degrees and spoke multiple languages, she still struggled to get hired for jobs even in her field of study. 
This movie shines a light on an immigrant family simply working as hard as they can in order to live like the common America. The movie made me take a step back and think about how in this country, we are all about the American dream, yet immigrants struggle most of the time. 
Amreeka is voted a 7/10 movie overall on IMDb Out of 3,629 IMDb voters 31%, or 1,139 people voted Amreeka a five star film, and only 2.2%, or 79 people voted Amreeka a one star film. I am not surprised that then movie got a seven rating. I do think it could have been a bit higher, but with the predicability, the rating for me falls at a 9/10. I overall really enjoyed this film, and would recommend it to others. 


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