The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Based on Moshin Hamid’s incisive novel about a Pakistani-American who finds his love for his adopted home tested (and less than requited) in the wake of 9/11, director Nair’s (Monsoon Wedding) latest make great use of her “gift for revealing the challenges and contradictions of the American minority experience… [where] conflict comes from within as well as without.” (Variety)