This won many accolades but I found it to be a strange mix of cliché/trite and a family drama that often hit the mark. The trailer essentially gave the entire story arc away. May's hesitations are never really explained and it seemed her fiancé might have had some as well. Their conversation also hint at their not being in sync but of course talking with unreliable connections in different time zones can do that for any interaction. I found the mothers changed views on attending the wedding strange.

The scenes of Jordan are engaging and beautiful, Some of the dialogue was jarring and trite but this is clearly a family that is enmeshed and fails to communicate. They just blurt things out at odd moments.

I am puzzled at the awards as much of this was a tearjerker with trite dialogue and was not well constructed IMHO.

this movie is by far the worse movie i have ever seen in my life, it took a place in Jordan and all the scenes and people in the movie they don't even represent Jordan nor Jordanians, its talking about a Palestinian family so they might film it in Palestine not Jordan, and i see this movie as a misrepresentation of Jordanians and Jordan and its a racist movie so don't even bother to watch. and if i have the ability to take it down from the internet i would.

I really enjoyed the story with its twists and turns. Like the previous reviewer, I do feel that a great deal of my enjoyment was derived from the backdrop of Amman, Jordan. It is stunningly beautiful and add to that the background soundtrack of the calls to prayer, even more beautiful. Also, learning that the lead was played by the writer of the story, I wondered if it was autobiographical. I would have liked to learn more about why all 3 daughters left their homeland. I would have liked to learn more about how the father met the mother. Bill Pullman did a great job with the role of the father coming across as believable some of the time but not believable much of the time.