Maryam (2000)
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Reviews Counted: 37
Fresh: 29 | Rotten: 8
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Average Rating: 7.1/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 2
No consensus yet.
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Average Rating: 3.5/5
User Ratings: 62
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Ramin Serry explores such issues as global politics, ideological conflict, and puberty in this coming-of-age film about being an Iranian-American teenager during the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Maryam (Mariam Parris) longs to be just a normal New Jersey 16-year-old, but her traditionalist father Darius (Shaun Toub) keeps her on a short rein. Maryam's modest goal is further hampered when her Iranian cousin Ali (David Ackert) comes to stay with them. Though Ali's stridently fundamentalist views
Cast
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Mariam Parris
Mary Armin -
Shaun Toub
Darius Armin -
Shohreh Aghdashloo
Homa Armin -
Victor Jory
Jamie -
Jason Nash
Joel -
Maz Jobrani
Reza -
Sabine Singh
Jill -
Michael Blieden
Pete -
David Ackert
Ali Armin -
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All Critics (39) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (31) | Rotten (8) | DVD (4)
A lovely, intricate coming-of-age portrait set in a cross-cultural context, "Maryam" reps a promising debut from Ramin Serry.
High on melodrama. But it's emotionally engrossing, too, thanks to strong, credible performances from the whole cast.
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.
Top CriticIt is enthralling and evocative, despite some flaws.
Uncannily in tune with contemporary global events.
Maryam is more timely now than ever.
Smarter in its message than its execution, this is still a thought-provoking rental.
Serry manages to tell an engrossing and subtly complex coming-of-age story that involves not just a high school girl, but her whole family.
First-time writer-director Serry shows a remarkable gift for storytelling with this moving, effective little film.
It's a very sincere work, but it would be better as a diary or documentary.
A quietly moving look back at what it was to be Iranian-American in 1979.
It takes this never-ending confusion and hatred, puts a human face on it, evokes shame among all who are party to it and even promotes understanding.
captures that perverse element of the Kafkaesque where identity, overnight, is robbed and replaced with a persecuted "other."
It's good; indeed, it's important.
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