Tries too hard to be cutsie and cool. Characters are wooden and simplistic, narrative is disjointed and hard to follow the story's chronology. When the film asks us to believe the narrator's father is a practicing doctor without health insurance and the mother has no transferrable high school diploma and has to take GED course (instead of just an exam), I gave up. The five brothers are cartoonish and not a bit funny. To think the film got an Audience Award at Sundance doesn't reflect well on that audience (or the festival). Spend your money on better new films like the hilarious Pakistani-American POLITE SOCIETY instead.
Review of The Persian Version
