American Wrestler: The Wizard (2016) on Netflix
In 1980, seventeen-year-old Ali Jahani escapes the unrest in Iran for a small California town. The hostage crisis brings him hostility there, and he joins his school's floundering wrestling team.
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Ali Jahani, seventeen, leaves the unrest in Iran in 1980 for a small California town, where the hostage crisis makes him the target of hostility in an unwelcoming community. He lives with an embittered uncle. Determined to fit in and rejected by nearly everyone, he joins the school's floundering wrestling team, which offers him a way to change how others see him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about American Wrestler: The Wizard (2016)
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- The story came from the producer's own life: Ali Afshar took up wrestling at his high school after fleeing his home country of Iran during the political outrage of the 1970s, and American Wrestler: The Wizard is heavily inspired by him.
