Maryam (2002)
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Mariam Parris, David Ackert, Shaun Toub, Shohreh Aghdashloo
A New Jersey teenager's American identity and family history are unsettled when her Iranian cousin arrives with a plan to assassinate the hospitalized Shah.
The story
Maryam Armin is a high school student in New Jersey who considers herself American. Her sense of identity is challenged when her cousin Ali arrives from Iran to pursue higher education. A religious hardliner and supporter of Ruhollah Khomeini, Ali's presence gradually leads Maryam to recognize that a painful past connects him and her father. At the same time, students in Iran have seized the U.S. Embassy, and Ali is planning to assassinate the hospitalized Shah at the Manhattan cancer center where Maryam's father works as a doctor.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Maryam Armin is a high school girl in New Jersey, USA, who considers herself American. That is until her cousin Ali arrives in the United States from Iran to pursue higher education. He is a religious hardliner and a staunch supporter of Ruhollah Khomeini. But little by little, Maryam realizes that a painful past lies buried between Ali and her father. Meanwhile, as students in Iran have seized the U.S. Embassy, Ali is also planning to assassinate Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, where the Shah is hospitalized and Maryam’s father is a doctor...
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