Directed by:
Mira NairCinematography:
Declan QuinnComposer:
Michael AndrewsCast:
Riz Ahmed, Kate Hudson, Kiefer Sutherland, Liev Schreiber, Nelsan Ellis, Martin Donovan, Om Puri, Shabana Azmi, Haluk Bilginer, Adil Hussain, Victor Slezak (more)VOD (1)
Plots(1)
We begin in 2011 in Lahore. At an outdoor café a Pakistani man named Changez tells Bobby, an American journalist, about his experiences in the United States. Roll back ten years, and we find a younger Changez fresh from Princeton, seeking fortune and glory on Wall Street. The American Dream seems well within his grasp, complete with a smart and gorgeous artist girlfriend, Erica. But when the Twin Towers are attacked, a cultural divide slowly begins to crack open between Changez and Erica. Changez's dream soon begins to slip into nightmare: profiled, wrongfully arrested, strip-searched and interrogated, he is transformed from a well-educated, upwardly mobile businessman to a scapegoat and perceived enemy. With time, he begins to hear the call of his own homeland. Taking us through the culturally rich and beguiling worlds of New York, Lahore and Istanbul, The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a story about conflicting ideologies where perception and suspicion have the power to determine life or death. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Riz Ahmed
UK
Best movies:
The Night Of (2016) (series)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Nightcrawler (2014)
Kate Hudson
USA
Best movies:
Almost Famous (2000)
Deepwater Horizon (2016)
Marshall (2017)
Kiefer Sutherland
UK
Best movies:
Phone Booth (2002)
Stand by Me (1986)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
Liev Schreiber
USA
Best movies:
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
Spotlight (2015)
Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003) (TV movie)
Nelsan Ellis
USA
Best movies:
The Help (2011)
The Express (2008)
Secretariat (2010)
Martin Donovan
USA
Best movies:
Trust (1990)
The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019)
Insomnia (2002)
Om Puri
India
Best movies:
Gandhi (1982)
Brother Bajrangi (2015)
Hey Ram (2000)
Shabana Azmi
India
Best movies:
1947 : Earth (1998)
Amar Akbar Anthony (1977)
The Chess Players (1977)
Haluk Bilginer
Turkey
Best movies:
Lionheart (1987)
Cars of the Revolution (2008)
Winter Sleep (2014)
Adil Hussain
India
Best movies:
What Will People Say (2017)
English Vinglish (2012)
Life of Pi (2012)
Victor Slezak
USA
Best movies:
The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
Mildred Pierce (2011) (series)
The Saint of Fort Washington (1993)
Erik Thirsk
Best movies:
Jurassic World (2015)
Trouble with the Curve (2012)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012)
Chandrachur Singh
India
Best movies:
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012)
Josh (2000)
Meesha Shafi
Pakistan
Best movies:
Run Milkha Run (2013)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012)
To Strike (2013)
Mark Oliver
Best movies:
We Are Marshall (2006)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012)
Killing Reagan (2016) (TV movie)
Richard Tavernaro
Best movies:
Fast Five (2011)
42 (2013)
The Lost Valentine (2011) (TV movie)
Clayton Landey
USA
Best movies:
Sully (2016)
Pump Up the Volume (1990)
Crime of the Century (1996) (TV movie)
Ismail Bashey
India
Best movies:
The Warrior (2001)
Million Dollar Arm (2014)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012)
Deepti Datt
Best movies:
E.M.A.E.T. (2012)
Luck by Chance (2009)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012)