This is a cute story about people from two very different backgrounds finding love and making it work.

It took a while to build up momentum, but it finally hit its stride in the last half of the movie. It was interesting to see the culture clash. The poor jokes were annoying and distracting from a good story.

I really enjoyed this movie. Funny, smart and romantic...a perfect chick flick in my opinion. I didnt even realize until the end that it was a true story.

“David and Layla” is a romantic drama that explores the love between two people from very different cultural backgrounds. David Fine (David Moscow) is a Jewish guy and host of a show “Sex and Happiness” who spends his workdays interviewing people on the streets of Brooklyn. He is engaged to a domineering, Type- A personality, Abby (Callie Thorne), also a Jew. Things are moving along, not altogether satisfactorily (especially in his love life), when David sees a beautiful, exotic young woman walk down the street one day. The lady in question is Layla (Shiva Rose), a Kurdish refugee from Iraq who is living with her affluent relatives whilst she tries to figure out a way to get a green card – her visa expires in 30 days, and she faces deportation. David finds himself falling hard for Layla, and the story centers on their courtship and the problems that inevitably arise in a cross-cultural romance, especially considering that David is a Jew whilst Layla is a Muslim. Needless to say, both families are not too thrilled at the couple’s romance – David’s mother, Judith (Polly Fine) is a typical Jewish mother who is horrified at the prospect of getting a shiksa daughter-in-law, especially a Muslim! Peter Van Wagner turns in a fine performance as Mel, David’s laidback and empathetic father. The two leads share a credible on-screen chemistry that makes the viewer buy into the love at first sight premise (well for David at least). Shiva Rose (ex-wife of actor Dylan McDermott) is compelling and sexy as the lovely Layla who harbors within her a poetic and sensitive soul, who loves to dance and resorts to lying to her relatives (telling them she attends nursing school) whilst moonlighting as a traditional dancer in a local establishment. Unfortunately, so much is crammed into the storytelling, that not enough time is spent focusing on what draws Layla to David and vice versa, in terms of genuine feelings and depth of emotion. The story is packed with too many characters, and though the supporting cast does a good job, I felt this was a classic example of “too many cooks spoiling the broth”. The cultural differences are explored using humor – the scene where Layla attends Passover dinner at David’s house, bringing inappropriate hostess gifts is one among many scenes peppered throughout the movie. But, once again, this felt a bit derivative to me – if Layla truly loved David, then why did she not make the effort to find out what would make an appropriate Passover gift? Also, it felt to me like David was the one willing to make the most accommodations in the relationship. Ultimately, I thought the movie was a fun exploration of an inter-religious romance, but it does approach the story in an almost trivial manner – there is no real, genuine, in-depth exploration of the complexities inherent within such relationships. I should know, being in a cross-cultural marriage myself. Final verdict – a fun movie with generally good acting, and should make good entertainment for those who like rom-coms.

Eh, alright, a little too crude at parts, but I really did like the cultural aspect..

Culture clash comedy/drama with a good lead performance by David Moscow, Caricatures abound though.

Based on a true story, true love has no barriers...

love it want to see it!

Sweet little movie based on an actual couple, a Jewish American who falls deeply in love with a Kurdish immigrant who only has 30 days before she is asked to leave the US. The eternal question.....what would you do for love comes up a lot as their respective familes balk at the prospect of their impending marriage. I hope other couples in similar situations as with this one....love defeats hate.

Really a 5.5/10, the road to formulaic romantic-comedy complications and ethic cliches is paved with good intentions in first-time filmmaker Jay Jonroy's cross-culture love story, which might as well be called My Big Fat Kurdish Wedding.

Based on a TRUE story! Refreshing to see that true love still stands, regardless of cultural/religious differences; after all, we are human beings.

Five stars just for the guy who plays the French camera man/David's best friend!!! Should be a lot more of him ...

David and Layla is definitely a must-see-movie! The filmmaker did a wonderful job at capturing two very different cultures, but more importantly two very different people. Although the two main characters are very different, the filmmaker did a wonderful job of creating a believable relationship between them. The movie was extremely beautiful, and well-worth the price of admission. It is kind of hard to find, but I would definitely recommend looking for it!

This was a really beautiful film! Full of colors, spice, and culure. People complain about how much stereotypes are present in the film, but I don't think they realize that this is based on a true story. I think the film would have been less realistic if the pressures between the different religious backgrounds had been left out. Go see the film, its well worth the 7-9 bucks.

Fascinating movie. Great story plot that centralizes around two young individuals, David and Layla. David first sees Layla on the streets, and is instantly mesmerized by her beauty. Using his 온라인카지노추천 show as a forefront, he spends each day trying to meet her and strike up a conversation. Layla is unimpressed at first, but it is until one night when David tries an act of awkward chivalry that has him ending up at the brunt of a broom attack. The onslaught allows him to finally be recognized, but it is only the beginning in his adventure of pursuing Layla despite the differences of religions, personal views and opinions of families and friends where attraction grows into love and affection between the two. Great cast- David Moscow, Shiva Rose McDermott, Callie Thorne, Polly Adams, Peter Van Wagner, Ed Chemaly, and Anna George. Tons of humor. Definitely worth seeing!

If you can find this I am the jewish wedding dancer in it.

Cute plot and likeable characters.

Quite an unrealistic plot, yet entertaining. A must-watch to learn about Kurd-Jew relations.

This movie wasnt as good as I hoped, I wasnt really feeling it.

Is spicy food consumption positively correlated with the incidence of sexual relations? That's the comical question (though not worded that way precisely) that introduces us to the male protagonist David, a small time 온라인카지노추천 host in New York of Jewish heritage. The question recurs about as frequently as the laughs - a nontrivial number of times. David meets (or bumps into rather) Layla - a lovely Kurdish refugee - on the street while filming and things move quickly from there. It's primarily a story about the fusion of two religious cultures - separated on average by stereotypes, suspicion, and frequently distrust - in pursuit of that most common of goals: love. Apparently based on a true story, the film often succeeds in doing a good job presenting its themes humorously while not letting us lose sight of the message. Bottom line: I love spicy food.