The read
Critics rate it 30 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
When As’ad, a 12-year-old rubbish picker, adopts an American sex doll from the Baghdad dumps, he crosses into a perilous red zone, finding himself caught in the crossfire between abusive forces of commercialism and fundamentalism in a world where defenders of humanism have lost their power. He embraces the courage it takes to not just survive, but live.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 30 points higher than audiences do.
3 audience votes
Key crew
- Ahmed Yassin Al DaradjiDirector
- Margaret GloverScreenplay
- Ahmed Yassin Al DaradjiScreenplay
Cast
- Wissam DiyaaTaha
- Jawad Al ShukrchiAl Haji
- Hussain Muhammad JalilAs'ad
- Akram Mazen AliAmir
- Karar Shaaban Abdel SadaRasul
- Ali FarhanEmad
- Mahdi Al FartousiTahseen
- Jafer Al SheikhAmerican Mister
- Israa AdelGirl Next Door
- Vanessa KanaanSalwah (voice)
- Hassan HadiAbu Laith
- Wathaq Mahdi Al LamyAbu Mustafa