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Release Date:
December 16, 2016
Summary:
Facing certain death on the front lines of the Iran-Iraq War, 17 year-old Ali Jahani is smuggled out of Iran and sent to live with his uncle in the small Northern California town of Petaluma. Upon his arrival, Ali is faced with a different kind of adversity – Racial slurs, dirty looks, and bullying. It’s 1979, the midst of the Iran Hostage Crisis. The front page of every newspaper has images of blindfolded hostages or Iranians burning American flags. Ali’s uncle, Hafez, embittered from being ostracized by his community, also doesn’t want him there. He feels Ali has brought bad luck with him from Iran. Rejected by everyone, but determined to fit in and to make a new life for himself, Ali decides that joining a school sports team will make him seem “like everyone else.” After failed tries at basketball and football, Ali impresses Coach Plyler and makes it onto the school’s floundering wrestling team.
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Details
| Runtime: | 117 min |
| Rating: | Rated PG-13 for violence, some disturbing images, language and thematic material |
| Official Site: | http://wizardmovie.com/ |
| Production: | ESX Entertainment |
| Genres: | Drama, Sport |
| Country: | USA |
| Language: | English |
| Director | Credit |
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| Alex Ranarivelo | Director |
| Writer | Credit |
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| Brian Rudnick | Writer |
| Cast | Credit |
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| Alex Lorre | Border Control |
| Ali Afshar | Hafez Tabad |
| Barnaby Falls | Hafez's Friend |
| Caelan Scrivener | Cafeteria Kid |
| Courtney Hope Turner | Jenny |
| Derek Stefan | Announcer #1 |
| Gabriel Basso | Jimmy Petersen |
| George Kosturos | Ali |
| Iyad Hajjaj | Border Captain |
| Jackie Dallas | Woman At Diner |
| Jon Voight | Principal Skinner |
| Judy Cerda | Hafez's Friend |
| Kevin G. Schmidt | Rowan Knox |
| Lia Marie Johnson | Kristi Larsen |
| London Freeman | Teen #1 |
| Michael Girgenti | Basketball Player |
| Natalie Stephany Aguilar | High School Student |
| Nicholas Guilak | Pasha |
| Ramsey Hanchette | Scorekeeper |
| Sasha Feldman | Dan 'Toad' Webster |
| Shannon Collis | Wendy |
| Shauna Richardson | Kristi's Friend |
| Teresa Navarro | Wrestling Fan |
| Tom O'Reilly | Hafez's Friend |
| William Fichtner | Coach Plyler |
| Producer | Credit |
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| Ali Afshar | Producer |
| Ashley Michaelsen | Associate Producer |
| Forrest Lucas | Executive Producer |
| Frank R. Gardner | Line Producer |
| Hadeel Reda | Producer |
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