A young girl runs away from her home in Somalia to avoid being the fourth wife of an elderly man. It was a long journey without shoes over rocky terrain to her grandmother's house in Mogadishu. Her grandmother sends her to London to work for a relative in the embassy until they are called back to Somalia. She left rather than return home, worked at a hamburger stand and attended school until she is spotted by a famous photographer. Very moving, especially with the real news of another famine in this poor part of the world. 3 1/2* (I liked this movie)
120 min, Drama directed by Sherry Hormann with Liya Kebede, Sally Hawkins, Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson.
Note: Blockbuster 3*, imdb 7.0 out of 10, 47% critic 75% audience at Rotten Tomatoes.
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