Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Geraldine Viswanathan | ... | Hala Masood | |
Jack Kilmer | ... | Jesse / Hala's boyfriend | |
Gabriel Luna | ... | Mr. Lawrence | |
Purbi Joshi | ... | Eram / Hala's mother | |
Azad Khan | ... | Zahid Masood | |
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Taylor Marie Blim | ... | Melanie (as Taylor Blim) |
Anna Chlumsky | ... | Shannon Taylor | |
Charin Alvarez | ... | Principal | |
Sam Straley | ... | Evan | |
Sonny Bhatt | ... | Arash | |
Ahmed Lucan | ... | Mahmoud | |
Alka Nayyar | ... | Hina | |
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Raven Whitley | ... | Lucy |
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Bianca Corral | ... | Sasha |
Zayna Dib | ... | Joy |
Hala, a Pakistani-American teenager girl in her final year of high school is cautious with her words, but avidly curious with her eyes and ears. Floating in a limbo between two cultures, she's gently pulling back from her Muslim faith and tentatively testing her crush on Jesse, a tousled blond classmate with a sensitive soul. She's a fascinating paradox, at once subdued and adventurous: One moment, she's meekly enduring the affectionate nagging of her anxious mother Eram; the next, she's racing through their Chicago suburb on her skateboard. Written by New York Times
While it is accurate for what it is like to be a teenage muslim girl it is rather mild. parents are usually much more strict than hers. however it still is a bit of an insight. anyone saying this is anti islamic must have some sort of agenda as it is not at all. however i don't think this movie shows anything new, is pretty tame and if anything pro islam. it is slow and somewhat dull. i can't really recommend it unless you have time to kill. it was a little shallow considering what they could have done with the subject matter.