- The one Arab American character is the heroine's absent father, the Egyptian American Hisham Badir, who walked out on his wife and their nine-year-old daughter leaving the girl nothing but a rabbit's foot; when sixteen-year-old Ann finally phones him, he refuses to meet her and assumes she called for his money.
Anywhere but Here (1999)
film
- Distributor
- TCF
- Cast
- Susan Sarandon, Natalie Portman, Faran Tahir
- Production notes
- Based on a novel by Mona Simpson