When two high school students ask Harrison Jones, an employee at a local sports card shop, to be a guest speaker at their school, they set into motion a chain of events that ends up changing their lives. They do not know Jones' background and the key role he will play in transforming the rebellious and troubled high school students he's given the chance to speak to. Together, Jones and the students break down emotional walls and take on the problems in their lives. They learn the solution to these problems is to be found by looking to faith, joy and hope.
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Writer
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$50
Maya
As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, secretly gathers six of her most committed female students to read forbidden western classics. Unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, they soon removed their veils, their stories intertwining with the novels they read: just like the heroines of Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James or Jane Austen, the women in Nafisi’s living room dare to dream, hope and love as we experience the complexity of the lives of individuals facing political, moral and personal siege.
