***SPOILERS*** Overly schmaltzy movie about a beautiful Palistinian lady doctor Joleh Khalid and a cute looking, with baby blue eyes, Brooklyn Jewish Harvard graduate student Romi Meir who meet and fall in love under the most unusual circumstances.
Romi traveling to Israel to attend his father's funeral who was killed in a PLO suicide bombing of a Israeli bus was recruited by his cousin Muki into the top Israeli spy agency the Shin Bet in order to track down his father's killers. Romie going undercover as an Arab baker instead falls in love with PLO member Joleh Khalid a doctor at a Palistinian hospital in the town of Ramallah on the Israeli occupied West Bank. It's when Romi's identity is revealed, by Muki trying to get him out of harms way, that Joleh's hot headed PLO boyfriend Bashan, who looks like a cross between Andrew Dice Clay and Saddam Hussein, make a serious attempt to break up the couple by knocking off Romi where he at least expects it: At the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem!
At first the movie "A House Divided" holds your interest in the Romeo & Juliet love affair between the two love birds , Romi & Joleh, love affair. It's only when Romi's is revealed as being Jewish that it starts to have a false ring to it. Why would Joleh who only knew Romie for less then two day fall heads over heels in love with him! Her boyfriend Bashan had far more things in common with her, besides being a strapping and good looking young Arab man, then Romi ever did!
***SPOILER*** As we all could see the affair was doomed right from the start but it took almost the entire film for both Romi & Joleh to finally realize that. It's when Joleh faked her death,in order not to be forced into an arranged marriage, without Romi knowing it that it made things even worse for the love sick couple! Taking it out on God for not coming to Joleh, who faked having OD's on drugs, rescue Romi ends up making a complete and utter fool of himself, in front of the Wailing Wall, thus leaving himself wide open for the sharp shooting sniper Bashan, dressed up as a Hassidic Jew, to get a clear shot at him! That just as Jolen shows up, from the dead,to prevent it from happening. This ended a love affair that was never meant to be and that was doomed to failure before it even began.
Romi traveling to Israel to attend his father's funeral who was killed in a PLO suicide bombing of a Israeli bus was recruited by his cousin Muki into the top Israeli spy agency the Shin Bet in order to track down his father's killers. Romie going undercover as an Arab baker instead falls in love with PLO member Joleh Khalid a doctor at a Palistinian hospital in the town of Ramallah on the Israeli occupied West Bank. It's when Romi's identity is revealed, by Muki trying to get him out of harms way, that Joleh's hot headed PLO boyfriend Bashan, who looks like a cross between Andrew Dice Clay and Saddam Hussein, make a serious attempt to break up the couple by knocking off Romi where he at least expects it: At the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem!
At first the movie "A House Divided" holds your interest in the Romeo & Juliet love affair between the two love birds , Romi & Joleh, love affair. It's only when Romi's is revealed as being Jewish that it starts to have a false ring to it. Why would Joleh who only knew Romie for less then two day fall heads over heels in love with him! Her boyfriend Bashan had far more things in common with her, besides being a strapping and good looking young Arab man, then Romi ever did!
***SPOILER*** As we all could see the affair was doomed right from the start but it took almost the entire film for both Romi & Joleh to finally realize that. It's when Joleh faked her death,in order not to be forced into an arranged marriage, without Romi knowing it that it made things even worse for the love sick couple! Taking it out on God for not coming to Joleh, who faked having OD's on drugs, rescue Romi ends up making a complete and utter fool of himself, in front of the Wailing Wall, thus leaving himself wide open for the sharp shooting sniper Bashan, dressed up as a Hassidic Jew, to get a clear shot at him! That just as Jolen shows up, from the dead,to prevent it from happening. This ended a love affair that was never meant to be and that was doomed to failure before it even began.