Checkpoint

Checkpoint

1987 · 91 min · ★ 9.0 · Drama

A busload of College students, returning to Michigan from a Canadian field trip, is stopped at the US border at the time of the Iranian hostage crisis. The group includes a number of Iranian passengers, divided along ideological lines, whose debates about policy and politics soon lead to a full-scale confrontation.

Directed by Parviz Sayyad · Written by Parviz Sayyad

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