Surviving Paradise (2001)

Directed by

Kamshad Kooshan

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 25m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows an Iranian brother and sister who have just moved to Los Angeles. It shows their struggles as they try to adjust to life in both tough and more comfortable parts of the city.

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What happens

Surviving Paradise is a 2000 American family adventure/drama film written and directed by Kamshad Kooshan. With three months of theatrical release in major theaters in Southern California and the San Francisco Bay Area, it is considered to be the first English-language Iranian-American film distributed in the United States. It is one of the first to prominently feature Shohreh Aghdashloo in a Hollywood production. The story concerns the struggles of a newly-arrived Iranian brother and sister in the rough as well as better-off neighborhoods of Los Angeles. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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