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This adaptation tells the story of a Chinese woman emigrating to the U.S. and her subsequent arranged marriage. This movie featured the first majority Asian cast in Hollywood cinema, setting a precedent for the following The Joy Luck Club and Crazy Rich Asians to have a majority Asian casting. It became the first major Hollywood feature film to ...
Arranged is a 2007 American independent film produced by Cicala Filmworks, directed by Diane Crespo and Stefan Schaefer, and starring Zoe Lister-Jones and Francis Benhamou. It tells the story of the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman (Rochel) and a Muslim woman (Nasira), both of whom are teachers in New York City .
In a desperate move for Storm to gain immigrant status, Julia asks Storm to enter into an arranged marriage with Ciara, who is already an American citizen. As Storm struggles to find his place in a foreign land, Julia works hard to chase after her own dream of finishing school, causing the two of them to drift apart.
The film stars Radhika Apte as a woman who is dragged into an unhappy arranged marriage. The film had its world premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival during its Directors' Fortnight section on 19 May 2024. It was nominated at the 78th BAFTA Awards for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer. [1] [2]
THE COUNTDOWN: From ‘Mr and Mrs Smith’ to ‘Cleopatra’, Helen Coffey rounds up the movies that saw their stars get caught-up in illicit romances on and off screen 11 films that ended actors ...
Shira Mendelman, an 18-year-old Hasidic girl living in Tel Aviv, is looking forward to an arranged marriage with a young man whom she likes. However, on Purim, her family suffers a tragedy when Shira's older sister Esther dies in childbirth. Shira's father subsequently delays the engagement so as not to have to deal with an empty house so soon ...
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The film explores the expectations surrounding marriage in the Patels' first-generation Indian immigrant family and in wider American society. [2] It had its international premiere at Hot Docs in April 2014. [3] [4] Fox Searchlight acquired remake rights after the documentary won the Audience Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival. [5] [6]