Amreeka

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Actors: Alia Shawkat , Hiam Abbass , Joseph Ziegler , Daniel Boiteau , Yussuf Abu-Warda , Jenna Kawar , Nisreen Faour , Brodie Sanderson , Andrew Sannie , Selena Haddad , Melkar Muallem

Director: Cherien Dabis

IMDB Rate: 6.7 out of 10 (714 votes)

Plot Summary:Muna, a single mother in Ramallah, has applied for a visa to the US. When it comes, her son Fadi, an excellent student, convinces her they should go. After an incident at customs begins their exile badly, they join Munas sister and family in Illinois. Muna needs a job although she has two degrees and 15 years experience in banking, she settles for work at White Castle, telling the family her jobs at a nearby bank. Its spring, 2003, and the US invades Iraq. While friends come from unlikely places, Fadi meets prejudice at school. How hell respond to it and to American youth culture and how Muna will sort things out with her family are the rest of the story. Tragedy or hope?