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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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