Reluctant Fundamentalist, The

A FILM BY Mira Nair

Riz Ahmed's subtle transformations carry the film.

- Omer M. Mozaffar, Roger Ebert

The viewer is hooked by the series of events cleverly directed and edited.

- Elisa Scubla, The London Film Review

Synopsis

Kiefer Sutherland, Kate Hudson and Liev Schreiber star in this explosive political thriller about a brilliant young man (Riz Ahmed) from Pakistan whose meteoric rise on Wall Street puts the American Dream well within his reach. But when the Twin Towers are attacked, his dream turns into a nightmare as he finds himself embroiled in a hostage crisis and torn between the conflicting ideologies of his two homelands.