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  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 32 m

Summary Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football, an award-winning documentary, follows a predominately Arab-American high school football team from a working-class Detroit suburb as they practice for their big cross-town rivalry game during Ramadan, revealing a community holding onto its Islamic faith and the American Dream while struggling for accept...

Directed By: Rashid Ghazi

Written By: Ruth Leitman

  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 32 m

Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football, an award-winning documentary, follows a predominately Arab-American high school football team from a working-class Detroit suburb as they practice for their big cross-town rivalry game during Ramadan, revealing a community holding onto its Islamic faith and the American Dream while struggling for accept...

Directed By: Rashid Ghazi

Written By: Ruth Leitman

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
57
33% Positive
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50% Mixed
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17% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
57
33% Positive
2 Reviews
50% Mixed
3 Reviews
17% Negative
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75
Sep 9, 2011
Coming on the eve of the 9/11 anniversary, this snapshot of middle America is a worthwhile addition to the cultural conversation.
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70
Sep 8, 2011
Fordson, however, does not condemn the United States. It rather proudly affirms the American dream, reclaiming it for Muslims who see no conflict between their patriotism and their faith.
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60
Sep 6, 2011
Thankfully, the kids' complicated impulses resist such packaging, whether they're catcalling head-scarved co-eds outside the local gas station or channeling racial resentments into extra hard hits.
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60
Sep 6, 2011
For most of its running time, Fordson wanders far from the gridiron to offer overall impressions of a close-knit community of Arab-Americans who, in the wake of 9/11, often have found themselves targeted and stereotyped as militant Islamists or worse.
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50
Sep 8, 2011
The biggest travesty isn't that the movie fails to stir "Rudy"-caliber emotions. It's that there was a meaningful story hiding behind the guise of a less serious genre.
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38
Sep 6, 2011
In the documentary, the game is a make-believe war of pent-up frustrations linking race, nation, and manhood, one which teenage boys named Mohamed can actually win.
By Diego Semerene FULL REVIEW

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Production Company North Shore Films LLC, Quraishi Productions
Release Date Sep 9, 2011
Duration 1 h 32 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.fordsonthemovie.com/
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