Torn

This movie is very well intentioned. I did find it formulaic. Some main characters are undeveloped having lines to say but no character beyond those few lines. Much of the dialogue so obvious it's not a movie you can escape into. A manager has an absurd conversation with an employee that is completely outside of common practice. Police do a bad local cop search in a FBI level bombing investigation. Someone needed to do a lot more work and study to make this movie and it's really worth making again with better research and a better script. Five minutes each on Wikipedia would give you all the depth covered of an important school social matter and a religion. The ending has the same problems and conflicts with other facts in the storyline even though it is affectionate. I'm still glad I saw the movie so if you want to see something on the subject it is worth the time. It's just definitely not award-winning. 6/10 for the love and intentions.

Just started to watch this movie in Pakistan, to see how Mahnoor Baloch acted. But after sometime script was all over my mind. At the end, I was feeling bit low about our thoughts and assumptions.

That's what we are. We just believe on whatever our media and govt projects. Even the investigations are more focused to make suspects if you don't have any. Movie also reflects how incomplete facts always hurt peoples, cultures, families and even nation's behavior towards each other.

I feel the movie was cut short for the sake of time. It could have been in more detail. If you are planning to watch a serious movie with a good ending. You must watch it.

In a town in the USA two families share the same harsh fate. But they are from two different cultures, and the movie revolve around this subject. How do they cope, and how do their surroundings respond to them. Sounds boring huh? Let me try again, this movie is excruciating honest, and it will leave you with a feeling of shame. If you're a parent, watch this movie. If you think Muslims from the middle east all are evil, except from the 2 you know personally, watch this movie. If you are young in The States, and got this movie on your to see list, imagine that the two main chars, instead of being left alone to deal with their tragedy, would have gotten professional help from the government.

I cant help wonder how this movie got a score of 5,4. Perhaps the reason for setting a low score, could be that the movie gives a nuanced view upon Muslims and how we/the media treat them.

This film establishes characters and follows their emotional vacillations in such a conscientious, thorough manner that its compassion becomes powerful. It's neither formulaic nor lazy, and offers a refreshing lack of cynicism, even granting some noble courage to characters who might not in reality be so graceful.

Neither angry nor pretentious, the film also never struggles to be more than what it is: a pleasantly optimistic, hopeful depiction of how people might heal under the weight of distraction following a tragedy.

The performances are excellent, and help to make the film very engrossing.

Emotional, entertaining and real. Shows how Muslim Americans are unfairly profiled even though both families are dealing with the same loss.