AmericanEast
(2008)
★ 5.6 IMDb · 9 votes
Year: 2008
Runtime: 112 мин
Country: United States of America
Director: Hesham Issawi
Cast: Саид Бадрея, Тони Шалуб, Kais Nashef, Сара Шахи, Эрик Авари, Вирджиния Хэмилтон, Тим Гини, Manny Kleinmuntz
Plot
Summer in L.A., it's hot. Homeland Security has set the threat level at red; they're searching for several Arabs alleged to be terrorists. Mustafa, an Egyptian immigrant who runs a falafel shop, comes to the FBI's attention; they investigate him. He has other problems: his young teen son no longer wants to be a Muslim; his sister, a nurse, objects to Mustafa arranging her marriage to a cousin from Egypt. She has a non-Arab suitor of her own. Omar, an employee of Mustafa, is a struggling actor who doesn't want to play only terrorists. Mustafa hopes to open a real restaurant and has a potential partner in Sam, a Jew, whose family objects. What is the price of the American dream?