'The Good American' was directed and co-written by Alex Fazeli
By Marc Malkin
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Raphael Buisson, Property of Rebel Rouser Studios, Ltd. Sam Asghari has wrapped his starring role in the action thriller short, “The Good American.”
Asghari stars as Ben, an Iranian refugee and rideshare driver in Los Angeles who becomes entangled in a criminal underground when a passenger (Max Reeves) asks him to help save her twin sister (also played by Reeves) from a human trafficking ring run by Russian mobsters.
Director and co-writer Alex Fazeli says the film’s immigrant themes were inspired by a New York Times story about Iranian American citizens being detained at the US-Canada border after a U.S. drone strike killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad on Jan. 3, 2020.
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