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Breaking Fast

Country: United States, Language: English, 92 mins

  • Director: Mike Mosallam
  • Writer: Mike Mosallam
  • Producer: Sarah Bazzi; Bay Dariz; Seth Hauer; Alex Lampsos

CGiii Comment

There's a line: Who wrote this crap?

Mike Mosallam did! Unfortunately. A feature - painfully extracted and elongated from a short - that really ought not to have been extracted nor elongated..

This is a paint-by-numbers, preachy, instructional, badly acted, go-to film...if you are a gay muslim man living in West Hollywood!

Some people have [and will] describe this film as incredibly [we say, erroneously] woke. Good grief...wake up...all those 10 star reviews [on IMDb] are utterly ridiculous. Two gay men...who don't jump into bed straight away...incredulous...but, hey, that's the new gay woke! I wanna know you before I get on your c*&k! Yeah, right!

Look, it's simple...religion despises poofs and dykes [bisexuals, ha! And, trans don't even get a mention in the bible, koran et al.]. When will every delusional 'religious' LG[BT] person accept this commonly known fact?!?

There is a semi-intelligent discussion [near the end]...which, sadly, goes nowhere...and is, wholly, negated by a white [incomprehensible] woke perspective! Eeew!

Obviously, there is the obligatory blaming of colonisation [and, there's the blaming of god, to a lesser extent]...blame whoever/whatever for the woes and scandalous failures of this world [all religions ARE to blame, with their hatefulness, intolerance and blatant homophobia]...this ridiculous film is an out-and-out advertorial for 'how-to-be-good-gay' islamist! Ridiculous...considering the current climate! Homosexuality should not/cannot be homogenised!

As for the last 10 minutes...well, it just made us heave!

This is a pastiche of gay life. This is bamboozling [heteronormative] religious idealism coupled with unrepentant non-realism...all packaged and tied up without a ribbon of integrity nor intelligence.

Who wrote this crap?


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The(ir) Blurb...

Mo, a practicing Muslim living in West Hollywood, is learning to navigate life post heartbreak. Enter Kal, an All-American guy who surprises Mo by offering to break fast with him during the holy month of Ramadan.

Cast & Characters

Veronica Cartwright as Judy
Michael Cassidy as Kal
Haaz Sleiman as Mo
Patrick Sabongui as Hassan
Amin El Gamal as Sam
Diane Sellers as Nurse Harper
Aline Elasmar as Muna
Brian Dare as Sebastian
Christopher J. Hanke as John
Francesco Capussela as Funeral Attendee
Rula Gardenier as Mama
Matthew Spach as Bar Patron
Jose Lizarde Jr. as Grocery Store Employee
Doug Locke as Josh
Rob Warner as Chad