The Iran Job

Name: The Iran Job
Genre: Sport, Documentary
Released: September 28, 2012
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 67

2012

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Paladin | Release Date: September 28, 2012 | Not Rated

Summary: The Iran Job follows American basketball player Kevin Sheppard as he accepts a job to play in one of the world’s most feared countries: Iran. With tensions running high between Iran and the West, Kevin tries to separate sports from politics only to find that politics is impossible to escape in Iran. Along the way he forms an unlikelyThe Iran Job follows American basketball player Kevin Sheppard as he accepts a job to play in one of the world’s most feared countries: Iran. With tensions running high between Iran and the West, Kevin tries to separate sports from politics only to find that politics is impossible to escape in Iran. Along the way he forms an unlikely alliance with three outspoken Iranian women. Thanks to these women, his apartment turns into an oasis of free speech, where they discuss everything from politics to religion to gender roles. Kevin’s season in Iran culminates in something much bigger than basketball: the uprising and subsequent suppression of Iran’s reformist Green Movement – a powerful prelude to the sweeping changes across the Middle East in the wake of the Arab Spring. (Paladin Films)… Expand

Director: Till Schauder

Genre(s): Sport, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 90 min

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Noel Murray

Oct 10, 2012

The sports drama gives The Iran Job a strong hook, while the cultural context enriches the movie's real story, which is less about Sheppard's life in Iran than about the people he meets. Read full review

Betsy Sharkey

Sep 27, 2012

One of those documentaries that is sad and hopeful in equal measure and exceptional in its storytelling. Read full review

David DeWitt

Oct 12, 2012

This observant documentary avoids pedagogy; it's not always artful, but it has a relaxed, light touch that never topples into pretension. Read full review

Odie Henderson

Mar 27, 2013

The description sounds like a real-life fish-out-of-water tale crossed with a sports movie. But the film wants to be more than that, and I'm on the fence about how well it succeeds. Read full review

Sam Adams

Oct 9, 2012

The documentary's technique of cutting between warm exchanges and the bellicose rhetoric of then-presidents Ahmadinejad and Bush wears thin with overuse, but the big-hearted Sheppard makes for an amiable tour guide. Read full review

Michael Nordine

Sep 25, 2012

Although it presents itself as merely the story of a professional basketball player named Kevin Sheppard, who, never quite making it to the NBA, has spent his career playing in lesser leagues overseas, The Iran Job ends up being quite a bit more: an underdog sports story, a fish-out-of-water tale, and an outsider's perspective on Iran's almost-revolution of early 2009. Read full review

Diego Semerene

Oct 12, 2012

Though there's something refreshing, and disturbingly familiar, about Kevin Sheppard's spontaneity, he's certainly not the most interesting thing about the film. Read full review

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