The Iran Job

2012

1h 30m

Documentary

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90%

21 Reviews

Tomatometer

76%

1,000+ Ratings

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Kevin Sheppard, a professional basketball player from America, signs to a team in Shiraz, Iran. His desire to explore the unknown culminates in an alliance with three Iranian women who help in a social revolution.

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StephenPaul C

The greatest 1.5 hours about Iran!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A real basketball movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/24/23

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Audience Member

Welcome to another howe do yeah do review. Let me set the scene for you. You're 53, it's 2008, but that's okay because you're a big bank man who just got 3 billion from the government. You're on your fourth wife and this one is at least older than your kids, but not by much and totally isn't cheating on you. And at the end of the day tho who cares it's just hookers and blow with Mark Cuban tonight. That reminds you, Mark Cuban... Mark Waban... Mark Wahlberg. OH FUCK, you forgot you needed to play gold with Mark Wahlberg. NEWS FLASH sunny, Marky don't take rejection very well. You zoom as fast as your rinky-dink brand new Lamborgini can drive back to your home, but you know what's waiting for you when you get there and you just don't want to say it. You Arrive, Guards, gassed. Dogs, missing. Tire marks, E V E R Y W H E R E. You run to your safe where you keep your Golden Bricks to find it already open with a note that says "Nobody out naps the Napster". You sink your head low and look out your floor-to-ceiling diamond windows and see 3 of Wrenches mini coopers which are the fastest cars alive driving into the sunset with Mark Wahlberg and your new wife. Overall id recommends this to anyone who just needs that extra bump to get there overpriced, constantly broken down Mini Cooper of their dreams.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Audience Member

Very great movie. I really learned a lot about Iranian culture.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/17/23

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Audience Member

Though its just another perspective on the morally decayed Iran, in between the lines, The Iran Job is a informative, inspiring and spiritful journey into a whole different league of humanity.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/23/23

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Audience Member

this was a very engaging movie. surprised AIPAC let this be shown in the US.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/04/23

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Audience Member

A good doc. Kevin is a likable guy and the film is an interesting look into the turbulence that is Iranian society.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/14/23

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Mark Feeney

Boston Globe

A lively, engaging documentary directed by the German filmmaker Till Schauder ...

Jun 19, 2013

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Drew Hunt

Chicago Reader

The film takes a distinctly American approach to Iranian matters of gender relations and religious extremism, shedding little light on subjects that are far more complicated than Schauder makes them out to be.

Mar 28, 2013

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Odie Henderson

Chicago Sun-Times

I confess to being a sucker for sports movies, the ones with the "Big Game" at the end. "The Iran Job" has all the requisite elements of that cinematic subgenre, but strives for something deeper.

Rated: 2.5/4

Mar 28, 2013

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

The film's truly profound moments arise out of Kevin's befriending a physiotherapist named Hilda.

Rated: 3.5/4.0

Sep 12, 2020

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Debbie Lynn Elias

Behind The Lens

The Iran Job is a Must See Festival Film not only for film lovers, but for anyone wanting to have their eyes and ears opened to the world.

Nov 26, 2019

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Betsy Sherman

Arts Fuse

The Iran Job is an engrossing documentary that cannily integrates basketball and a look at Iranian street life in the months leading up to and including the Green Movement protests.

Aug 9, 2017

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Synopsis

Kevin Sheppard, a professional basketball player from America, signs to a team in Shiraz, Iran. His desire to explore the unknown culminates in an alliance with three Iranian women who help in a social revolution.

Director: Till Schauder
Producer: Abigail Disney, Dan Azzi
Screenwriter: Till Schauder
Production Co: Fork Films
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 4, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $23.0K
Runtime: 1h 30m