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After Freedom
  • Studio: ViewCave
  • Release Date: May 14, 2004
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8.4 out of 10

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  • Summary: Set 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.)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 2 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 3
  3. Negative: 0 out of 3
  1. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Jon Strickland
    70
    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.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    70
    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.
  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: Todd McCarthy
    60
    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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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
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  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. AntoinetteA.T.
    10
    Its very nice to see fresh, new faces and good actors on the big screen...good job.
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  2. sharbelelr.
    9
    Good job, bunch of good looking actors. we like to see it on dvd soon .
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  3. S.M.
    9
    After freedom is a good movie, Joe El Rady as Vic Looks like young Al Pacino in a Mafia film , good job.
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