Reluctant Fundamentalist

[A] beautifully textured drama about a man caught between two cultures.

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Lahore, 2011. At a café a Pakistani man named Changez (Riz Ahmed) tells Bobby (Liev Schreiber), an American journalist, about his experiences in the United States. Roll back ten years, and we find a younger Changez fresh from Princeton, seeking his fortune on Wall Street. The American Dream seems well within his grasp, complete with a smart and gorgeous artist girlfriend, Erica (Kate Hudson). But when the Twin Towers are attacked, a cultural divide slowly begins to crack open between Changez and Erica. Changez’s dream soon begins to slip into nightmare: he is transformed from a well-educated, upwardly mobile businessman to a scapegoat and perceived enemy. Taking us through the culturally rich and beguiling worlds of New York, Lahore and Istanbul, The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a story about conflicting ideologies where perception and suspicion have the power to determine life or death.

FILM FESTIVALS
2012 VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL – OPENING FILM
2012 BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
2012 TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
2012 MILL VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL – AUDIENCE AWARD
2012 DOHA TRIEBECA FILM FESTIVAL
R
Genre
Thriller/Suspense
Runtime
128
Language
English
Director
Mira Nair
Cast
Riz Ahmed, Kate Hudson, Kiefer Sutherland, Om Puri, Shabana Azmi
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Leonard Maltin, Leonard Maltin's Picks

Having made a number of movies dealing with cultural identity, Mira Nair was an obvious choice to direct the screen adaptation of Mohsin Hamid’s critically acclaimed novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist, even though she is Indian and the film is rooted in Pakistan. It is a provocative, multilayered ...

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