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Detroit Unleaded
2012 1h 33m Not Rated
Comedy
,
Drama
,
Romance
6.0
69%
75%
50%
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An ambitious Lebanese-American youth is forced to take over his family's gas station after his father's death, in this spirited and often hilarious coming-of-age tale from first-time feature director Rola Nashef.
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Directed By
Rola Nashef
Written By
Heather Kolf
,
Jennifer Ginzinger
,
Rola Nashef
Studio
Gas Afterhours
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Cast of Detroit Unleaded
EJ Assi
Sami
Nada Shouhayib
Naj
Mike Batayeh
Mike
Akram El-Ahmar
Ibrahim
Scott Norman
Roger
Mary Assel
Mariam
Jason Ishmael Echols
Mahaba Man
Detroit Unleaded Reviews
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Big of heart but small of impact, the Arab-American rom-com "Detroit Unleaded" has all the kick of watered-down ethanol.
Detroit News
Tom Long
The way filmmaker Nashef captures the specifics of Detroit life and opens them up to wider understanding is both fun and enlightening.
RogerEbert.com
Steven Boone
The filmmaker's cart is tugging frantically at a lazy horse.
Oregonian
Jamie S. Rich
The unique cultural setting of "Detroit Unleaded" is refreshing, even if some aspects of the story are old hat.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
Sweet, but not too sweet, amusing, but not laugh-out-loud funny, and occasionally suspenseful, but not palpably.
The Dissolve
Andrew Lapin
Nashef knows how to write good dialogue, and lavishes attention on everyone.
Paste Magazine
Shane Ryan
Detroit Unleaded is described as a comedy, but there are very few moments that make you laugh.
Slant Magazine
Tina Hassannia
It compellingly engages with the specific problems of a cultural group rarely represented in American film, but it too easily and abruptly resolves its main characters' problems.
Chicago Reader
Drew Hunt
Cast largely with local first-time actors, the film is strikingly authentic and has the ragtag charm of a community art project.
Variety
Alissa Simon
Lebanese-American helmer Rola Nashef delivers a lively slice-of-life in this mainstream-friendly romantic comedy largely set at a Detroit gas station.
New York Times
Neil Genzlinger
"Detroit Unleaded" is about as gentle as comedies come these days, commendably so.
Village Voice
Nick Schager
[The characters] feel not like types but, rather, like diverse individuals.
World Socialist Web Site
Joanne Laurier
Detroit Unleaded, by debut writer-director Rola Nashef, is not a head-on social critique, but it is a warmhearted piece about the complicated interactions between the city's Arab and African American populations.
NewsBlaze
Prairie Miller
Laced with ironic, offbeat humor and bittersweet urban surrealism. And a rare glimpse in US movies, into the social, emotional and psychological impact of the workplace on the human condition.
Film Journal International
Ethan Alter
Having picked such an intriguing environment to depict onscreen, it's more than a little disappointing that Nashef then settles for such a routine storyline, one that's flatly told and not all that funny to boot.
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