There might be some way to depict the Iranian Revolution on film, but Septembers of Shiraz is not it.

A wildly inauthentic American melodrama about the 1979 Iranian revolution.

Another vacuous melodrama/thriller that doesn't lay a glove on the era's historical complexities.

The lack of emotion and depth makes for a movie that is hard to sit through, and all because it decides to tell and not show.