Arranged
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 4, 2008
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Film Movement
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Zoe Lister-Jones & Francis Benhamou | |
| Performer: | Laith Nakli, John Rothman, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Mimi Lieber & Daniel London | |
| Directed by | Stefan Schaefer & Diane Crespo | |
| Screenwriting by | Stefan Schaefer | |
| Produced by | Stefan Schaefer & Diane Crespo |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 3.5/4 --
Even if the cross-cultural camaraderie looks a little easy to achieve, here, aren't movies sometimes supposed to point towards the path of peace and reconciliation?
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NewsBlaze
Rating: 2.5/5 --
In Arranged two devout Brooklyn schoolteachers clutch hands across the religious divide as their respective families prepare to marry them off.
New York Times
Rating: 3.5/5 --
This is a beautiful little independent film with some really wonderful messages tucked into a tale of friendship, loyalty, duty, and tradition.
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TheMovieChicks.com
While the celebratory finale is supposed to be uplifting, it could just as easily be described as depressing and disturbing.
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Film Journal International
Lamentable scenes include that comic relief stand-by, the Bad Date Montage, but the movie comes off better than it should by virtue of Benhamou and (especially) Lister-Jones, appealing and modest young actors who create a plausible central relationship,
Village Voice
Precise lensing, a strong sense of locale and vibrant, eminently likeable perfs enliven Arranged.
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Variety
Rating: 2/4 --
For a movie meant to shake viewers out of their ignorance, this clunky drama sure does indulge in a lot of stereotypes.
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New York Daily News
Product Description:
Two teachers starting their first year at a Brooklyn public school have more in common than meets the eye. Though both women come from very different backgrounds--Rochel is Jewish Orthodox and Nasira is Muslim--they are each going through arranged marriages. This character-driven film surveys their developing friendship.
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