SummarySet in Glendale, California's Armenian American community, this unique portrait of "outsiders'" struggle to survive in America is a raw and realistic presentation of a grown man caught between his desperate need for an identity versus his sense of debt to those who got him to this country. (After Freedom Film, L.P.)
Directed By:Vahe Babaian
Written By:Vahe Babaian
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A deeply personal film that is also a mature, assured work rich in telling details and shot through with humor to offset its serious concerns.
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The filmmaker shares with Martin Scorsese an obsession with that classic male triangle of hard man, soft heart and childlike loser, but where so many Scorsese wannabes jettison sociology in favor of mayhem, Babaian burrows into the hearts of these first- and second-generation immigrants.
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Compensating for the technical faults is the writer-director's unmistakable and undiluted need to express the issues he feels are at the heart of his community.
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