Amira & Sam (2014) on Netflix
NR20141h 30mComedyDramaRomance
Sam, a former Green Beret, visits Bassam, the Iraqi translator he served with, and meets Bassam's niece Amira. She does not trust him at first since he was an American soldier.
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- Netflix3.5/5
- IMDb6.2/102,777 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes77%
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Plot summary
Sam Seneca was a soldier in Afghanistan and Iraq, and Bassam Jafari was his Iraqi translator. Back in New York, Sam visits Bassam and meets the man's niece Amira, who has lived with her uncle since her father died. An American bomb killed her brother during the war, so she does not trust Sam at first. Amira sells bootlegged films on street corners, and Bassam tried to claim her as a dependent, but the courts gave him trouble. When Amira is caught selling them, Bassam asks Sam to take her in.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Amira & Sam (2014)
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- Writer-director Sean Mullin, a former New York Army National Guard member and a September 11 first responder, based Amira & Sam on friends in the U.S. military who were trying to get asylum for their Iraqi translators.
- Actor Paul Wesley suggested that his character Charlie have a pregnant wife, giving Charlie a motive for the fraud and making him more sympathetic, since he would have to care for his child.
