''The Cross Road'' is a 2008 film written and directed by Alexandra Thompson. Starring

Shenae Grimes Shenae Grimes-Beech (; born October 24, 1989), previously credited as Shenae Grimes, is a Canadian actress. She portrayed Annie Wilson on The CW series '' 90210'', a spin-off of Fox's ''Beverly Hills, 90210''. Prior to that, she had a recurrin ...

as Bridget and

Garen Boyajian Garen Boyajian ( hy, Կարեն Բոյաջյան born July 5, 1987) is a Canadian actor. While continuing to perform in a number of television series and feature films, in 2008 he established a production company with a collection of films in ac ...

as Salaam, it is the story of love and intolerance.

Synopsis

''The Cross Road'' is a modern ''

Romeo and Juliet ''Romeo and Juliet'' is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about the romance between two Italian youths from feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with ''Ham ...

'' type of story. The Syrian Ahmed family has recently immigrated to the States and chooses to live in Middle America. The family is confronted by the Monroes, an American family who has a great distrust of foreigners, particularly Arabs. Walker Monroe ( Bruce Gooch) wants to drive the Syrian family out of their town. Meanwhile, Salaam (

), the young son of the immigrants has fallen in love with the American family's daughter Bridget (

). Walker recruits a fatherless teen next door to help him drive the Ahmeds out of his town but in doing so he jeopardizes Salaam's life and his own daughter's happiness.

Cast

as Salaam *

as Bridget * Bruce Gooch as Walker *Tommy Lioutas as Chris * Allan Aarons as Costa *Terry C. Barna as Police Officer #1 *Richard Blackburn as Principal *Callahan Connor as Steve *Susan Greenfield as Jane *Cecilia Jalaidan as Laila *Sabrina Jalees as Muslim Gi *Keira Loughran as Art Teacher *Sean O'Neil as Paul *Farzad Sadrian as Ali

Awards / Nominations

;Wins *Actor Garen Boyajian, winner of "Best Male Actor" at the

Monaco International Film Festival The Monaco International Film Festival is an annual international special interest film festival held in Monaco. It is a non-profit organization, formed in December 2003 and founded by Rosana Golden and Dean Bentley The festival focuses on non-vi ...

for his role in the film as Salaam *Actors Garen Boyajian, Shenae Grimes, Tommy Lioutas, Bruce Gooch and Sean O'Neill, co-winners of "Best Ensemble Cast" at the same festival *Director Alexandra Thompson won the AFA Award at the 2008 Angel Film Awards ;Nominations *The film was also nominated for the "Golden Aphrodite Award" at the Cyprus International Film Festival.Cyprus Film Festival: Golden Aphrodite Nominations
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References

External links

Official website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cross Road 2008 films Films based on Romeo and Juliet 2000s English-language films