Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football

Name: Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football
Genre: History, Sport, Documentary, News
Released: September 9, 2011
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 57

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AMC Independent | Release Date: September 9, 2011 | Not Rated

Summary: Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football, an award-winning documentary, follows a predominately Arab-American high school football team from a working-class Detroit suburb as they practice for their big cross-town rivalry game during Ramadan, revealing a community holding onto its Islamic faith and the American Dream while struggling forFordson: Faith, Fasting, Football, an award-winning documentary, follows a predominately Arab-American high school football team from a working-class Detroit suburb as they practice for their big cross-town rivalry game during Ramadan, revealing a community holding onto its Islamic faith and the American Dream while struggling for acceptance in post 9/11 America. (AMC Independent)… Expand

Director: Rashid Ghazi

Genre(s): History, Sport, Documentary, News

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 94 min

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Sara Stewart

Sep 9, 2011

Coming on the eve of the 9/11 anniversary, this snapshot of middle America is a worthwhile addition to the cultural conversation. Read full review

Paul Brunick

Sep 8, 2011

Fordson, however, does not condemn the United States. It rather proudly affirms the American dream, reclaiming it for Muslims who see no conflict between their patriotism and their faith. Read full review

Eric Hynes

Sep 6, 2011

Thankfully, the kids' complicated impulses resist such packaging, whether they're catcalling head-scarved co-eds outside the local gas station or channeling racial resentments into extra hard hits. Read full review

Joe Leydon

Sep 6, 2011

For most of its running time, Fordson wanders far from the gridiron to offer overall impressions of a close-knit community of Arab-Americans who, in the wake of 9/11, often have found themselves targeted and stereotyped as militant Islamists or worse. Read full review

Stephanie Merry

Sep 8, 2011

The biggest travesty isn't that the movie fails to stir "Rudy"-caliber emotions. It's that there was a meaningful story hiding behind the guise of a less serious genre. Read full review

Diego Semerene

Sep 6, 2011

In the documentary, the game is a make-believe war of pent-up frustrations linking race, nation, and manhood, one which teenage boys named Mohamed can actually win. Read full review

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