Arranged

Mar 10, 2007

1h 30m

★ 6.2

Overview

ARRANGED centers on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the course of the year they learn they share much in common - not least of which is that they are both going through the process of arranged marriages.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Romance

Arranged Trailers

Cast

Rochel Meshenberg

Zoe Lister-Jones

Nasira Khaldi

Francis Benhamou

Sheli Meshenberg

Mimi Lieber

Matan Meshenberg

John Rothman

Naomi Meshenberg

Sarah Lord

Avi Meshenberg

Trevor Braun

Elona

Doris Belack

Abdul-Halim Khaldi

Laith Nakli

Gideon

Jason Liebman

Principal Jacoby

Marcia Jean Kurtz

Miriam

Peggy Gormley

Eddie

David Castro

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