Amira & Sam is the story of two unlikely love birds running away together. It shows you who Amira is: a strong and independent Muslim woman who is in total control, even when she is looked down on by her peers. It shows you who Sam is: an Iraq war veteran who is trying adjust to present-day America after serving multiple tours in Iraq.

It's Sean Mullin's directorial debut and it packs quite a punch for an indy picture. What stole the show for me was the 7-minute uncut scene in the middle of the film in which Amira and Sam share secrets, jokes, and kisses. It's in this scene that I fell in love with Amira & Sam. Take 90 short minutes and rent Amira & Sam on VOD or iTunes. Or take a trip to the silver screen and support this picture. You won't regret it.

The fact that someone paid someone to place 20 fake reviews on IMDb with 10 star ratings is bad practise and IMDb should not allow it. Made me hesitant to watch it, because if the owner of this project doesn't believe in it, should I? .

About the movie. Take away all political correctness (and what is up with these people feeling offended). Let us run this against the Romcom/Bollywood clichelist:✓ Angry defensive girl, meets friendly naive guy, ✓opposite attracts, ✓A dramatic event brings them together.✓Love conquers all. Yup, seems to be all there. Is is bad? No it's no bad at all.

It's a romcom so no there is no fact checking for every event and some things are done for the cuteness factor. All together it is a nice watch and if the girl wasn't Muslim and the boy was Joseph Gordon-Levitt we'd be having this by the spoonful and declare it the indie 500 days of Summer.

12 January 2016: I am a strong supporter of Interracial Love stories between men and women of all races since I live in an Interracial marriage myself. My favorites are "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner", "Something New", "Our Family Wedding", "The Lovings", "Fools Rush In", "Guess Who", "Zebrahead", "Mississippi Masala"and "Forbidden Fruits" to name a few.

I can now add "Amira and Sam" to my list, which I found by accident on the i-net. This movie is great from start to finish for various reasons. The entire cast was great, especially the two leads. Writer/Director Sean Mullin does a great job with this movie.

When Americans think of Interracial Love, we usually do Not think of American soldiers in love with Arab women or Arab women in love with American soldiers especially from such countries as Iraq or Afghanistan due to all the problems we have especially post 9-11. That is like sleeping with the enemy. If or when it does happen, it is very rare and neither side wants to open their hearts and minds to accept such a couple due to racism, bigotry and terrorism in America.

Middle Eastern women of Arab and Israeli decent are at times disowned by their immediate families for falling in love with men of a different race. God does Not see skin color, God only sees the heart and mind.

It is easy to fall in love and marry a person of the same race and nationality, but it takes a special effort and an open heart and mind to love and marry another race.

In this movie, we see the Amira, a tough young woman, with a hard turtle shell on the outside that wants nothing to do with Americans due to her brother was killed by an American soldier in her country. She is full of anger towards Sam because he is an American soldier. She is rambling on in anger with her uncle, but I love when Sam responds in Arabic and she is stunned and ask "You speak Arabic?" Sometimes I get a similar reaction when people hear me reply in Spanish or Hebrew, which are not my native languages.

Midway into this movie, Amira begins to drop her hard turtle shell exterior by sleeping next to Sam in his bed.

I love their first kiss, which is so sweet and innocent like two people who have never romantically kissed before, which leads to more kissing with passion. When it starts to get hot and heavy, she tells him to stop and he did what all men should do stop and respect her wishes.

The ending was good, but I wish that they would have gotten married by the end of the film. Great movie. I give "Amira & Sam" a ten, two thumbs up, way up high.