Written, produced and directed by Iraqi Kurdish exile Jay Jonroy and based on a true story, "David and Layla" is an earnest, frequently funny comedy about stateless persons and the looming cliches ...

A comedic romance inspired by a real-life love story between a Jewish American man and a Kurdish Muslim woman, with dashes of erectile dysfunction, testicular torsion and international politics, ...

Sparks fly when a Jew and a Muslim fall in love in New York. David, a TV host of "Sex & Happiness", becomes smitten with the voluptuous Layla - a mysterious, sensual dancer. Layla turns out to be a ...

“David & Layla” wants so desperately to be the next “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” that it nearly derails itself as a rom-com with a refreshing ethnic spin. Fortunately the train never jumps the tracks, ...

That old staple, the culture-clash romantic comedy, is back once more in “David & Layla.” And like everything from the creaky “Abie’s Irish Rose” (first filmed in 1928) to “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” ...

"David & Layla" is an earnest, frequently funny comedy about stateless persons and the looming cliches that make Muslims and Jews so wary of each other. Written, produced and directed by Iraqi Kurdish ...

Inspired by a true story, sparks fly when a Jew and a Muslim fall in love in New York. David (David Moscow), TV host of "Sex & Happiness", becomes smitten with the voluptuous Layla (Shiva Rose) - a ...

David is a Brooklyn Jew who hosts a cable-access show about sexuality, Layla is a striking Kurdish exile who faces deportation back to Iraq, and their impulsive decision to marry causes a good deal of ...

Believe it or not, writer-director Jay Jonroy’s David and Layla is not the first Jew-meets-Muslim version of Romeo and Juliet to come along. Last year’s short subject Oscar went to the insipid but ...

At the heart of this tale is a real-life Jewish-Muslim love story that director Jay Jonroy heard from an acquaintance, and though he's clearly inspired by it, he doesn't know how to distill his themes ...