America so beautiful / Corey Tong, Filmmakers Alliance, B Good Films presents a Baja production in association with Liberator Productions ; producer, Jane Reardon ; screenplay, Babak Shokrian and Brian Horiuchi ; story, Babak Shokrian ; directed by Babak Shokrian.

Americans have been taken hostage in Iran, but in the seedy dying discos of 1979 Los Angeles, a naive young immigrant is hostage to his own American dream. Houshang, or "Hank" when he is pretending to be Italian to get past prejudiced doormen, sees the disco club circuit as his ticket to a better li...

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Uniform Title:Filmmaker's Alliance collection.
Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Rovi K-12 education materials.
Main Author: Tarkīyān, Rāmin (Composer)
Corporate Authors: B Good Films
Liberator Productions
Cinema Libre Distribution
Other Authors: Shokrian, Babak, 1965- (Screenwriter, Director)
Horiuchi, Brian, 1962- (Screenwriter)
Reardon, Jane (Producer)
Mansour (Actor)
Diaan, David, 1959- (Actor)
De Satti, Alain (Actor)
Gaidry, Diane, 1964- (Actor)
Leoni, Atossa (Actor)
Ryan, Tom (Cinematographer)
Language:English
Persian
Language of the Original:
English
Persian
Language and/or Writing System:
Mostly in English (some Farsi dialogue with English subtitles) with optional Farsi subtitles.
Published: [United States] : Cinéma Libre Distribution, [2004], ©2004.
Series:Filmmaker's Alliance collection.
Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Rovi K-12 education materials.
Subjects:
Genre:
Physical Description:1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format: Video DVD

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