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  • 2002
  • Not Rated
  • Streetlight Films
  • 1 h 27 m
  • 2002
  • Not Rated
  • Streetlight Films
  • 1 h 27 m
Maryam

Summary It's 1979 and Mary, an Iranian-American teenager, pursues fun and romance in the New Jersey suburbs. Mary's world is radically transformed, though, when Ali, her fundamentalist Muslim cousin, comes to live with her family at the same time that Americans are taken hostage in Iran. (Streetlight Films)

Directed By: Ramin Serry

Written By: Ramin Serry

  • 2002
  • Not Rated
  • Streetlight Films
  • 1 h 27 m
  • 2002
  • Not Rated
  • Streetlight Films
  • 1 h 27 m

Maryam

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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Summary It's 1979 and Mary, an Iranian-American teenager, pursues fun and romance in the New Jersey suburbs. Mary's world is radically transformed, though, when Ali, her fundamentalist Muslim cousin, comes to live with her family at the same time that Americans are taken hostage in Iran. (Streetlight Films)

Directed By: Ramin Serry

Written By: Ramin Serry

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Generally Favorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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61% Positive
11 Reviews
39% Mixed
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90
First-time writer-director Serry shows a remarkable gift for storytelling with this moving, effective little film.
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88
Maryam is more timely now than ever.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
75
A searing reminder of the relevance of recent history and of the timeless power of fiction to humanize people and crystallize sweeping events into personal drama.
By Loren King FULL REVIEW
63
Well-meaning but flawed drama.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
60
Its subject -- ethnic profiling during a time of international crisis -- could hardly be more contemporary.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
50
Maryam is absorbing and insightful when Serry focuses on the subtleties of a family's generational and cultural conflict, but the film veers regularly into Movie Of The Week (or even Afterschool Special) "big moments" that play like forced attempts to tell a personal story while insecurely adhering to a commercial formula.
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40
There's not much here; some of the shots feel so static that you wonder if they're being rehearsed before your eyes.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Centre Street, Streetlight Films
Release Date Feb 22, 2002
Duration 1 h 27 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline Cultures clash. Hearts break. People change.
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Awards

St. Louis International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Tiburon International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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