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Release Date: Feb. 11, 2011
\nDistribution Co: AMC Independent
\nOpening: AMC Theatres in 10 Cities: New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Detroit, Toronto, Houston, San Francisco and Dallas
\nDirector: Qasim Basir
\nProducers: Dana Offenbach
\nScreenwriter: Qasim Basir
\nCinematographer: Christopher Scott Cherot
\nCast: Evan Ross, Danny Glover, Nia Long, Roger Guenevere Smith, Dorian Missick, Summer Bishil, Kunal Sharma, and Kimberley Drummond
\nRating: PG-13
\nRunning Time: 95 min<\/p>\n

Synopsis: Pulled between his strict Muslim upbringing by his father and the normal social life he\u2019s never had, Tariq Mahdi (Evan Ross) enters college in a state of confusion.<\/p>\n

New relationships with Muslims and non-Muslims alike challenge his already shaken ideals, and the estrangement with his mother and sister troubles him. With the help of new friends, family and mentors, he begins to find himself and open up to an Islam he hasn\u2019t been exposed to. But when the attacks of 9\/11 happen without warning, he is forced to face his past and make the biggest decisions of his life.<\/p>\n

Missick stated that the film “is about a young Muslim (played by Ross) at a crossroads in his life and beliefs and how he navigates that just days before the 9\/11 attacks. My character, Professor Jamal, is a young muslim professor who strikes up a mentoring relationship with Evan’s character. I also have a strained — to say the least — relationship with Danny Glover’s character who’s the narrow minded dean of the university I teach at and Evan attends. It’s an important film and I’m really proud of the work everyone did in it.”<\/p>\n

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