Next: MatinÉe movie: The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mon 5/20
 

 

  • Matinée Movies: Every first and third Monday afternoon.
  • Each Monday Matinée includes light refreshments at 1PM, the film screening at 1:30PM, and a discussion following the film.
  • Monday Matinée Movies are currently afternoon screenings of our regularly scheduled films. Enjoy our high quality film programming even if you can't make it to prime time!
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Monday, May 20, 2013

1 PM refreshments
1:30 PM screening
Discussion after

$8 | $5 for members

Directed by Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding, Kama Sutra)

We begin in 2011 in Lahore. At an outdoor café a Pakistani man named Changez (Riz Ahmed) tells Bobby (Liev Schreiber), 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 (Kate Hudson). 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.

"If there ever was a time to see The Reluctant Fundamentalist, that time is here and now."
 - Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times


 

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