Not Quite Paradise

Not Quite Paradise

PG-13 1985 · 106 min · ★ 5.7 · Drama, Romance

Six young volunteers from different backgrounds travel to Israel to spend a summer working on a kibbutz, a communal farm where they can find adventure, hide from their pasts or search for themselves. But when American pre-med student Mike falls for tough kibbutz woman Gila he must make the most difficult choice of his life. In a land of clashing cultures, remarkable possibilities and shocking dangers, can real love survive the most surprising challenge of them all?

Directed by Lewis Gilbert · Written by Paul Kember

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