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The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013) Movie Synopsis

A young Pakistani man is chasing corporate success on Wall Street. He finds himself embroiled in a conflict between his American Dream, a hostage crisis, and the enduring call of his family's homeland. |


We begin in 2011 in Lahore. At an outdoor caf� 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. (c) IFC Films

The Reluctant Fundamentalist Movie Reviews

• Dana Stevens - Slate : Nair is so busy making sure we never lose sympathy for her handsome and charming protagonist that the film ultimately founders in a tangle of humanist platitudes.
• Tom Charity - CNN.com : It's a dogged, thoughtful and well-acted movie that might have been more effective if it kept a narrower focus.
• Peter Rainer - Christian Science Monitor : Timeliness is certainly on the side of Mira Nair's uneven but fascinating The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
• Richard and Mary Corliss - TIME Magazine : A movie imposing in its breadth and depth.
Sara Stewart - New York Post : Alas, the film's relevance - and ultimately sane upshot - is buried beneath a meandering and oft-implausible plot.