Product Details

• Actors: Anat Waxman, Eyal Rozales, Nthati Moshesh, Natan Zahavi, Ido Port
• Directors: Shahar Rozen
• Writers: Noa Greenberg
• Producers: Limor Kalo, Micha Shagrir
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English, Hebrew
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Wolfe Video
• DVD Release Date: September 20, 2005
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000A2UBMA
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #95,615 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Round Trip" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Nurit and Mushidi have e to Tel Aviv for very different reasons. Nurit packs up her son and daughter and leaves her jobless husband for what she hopes will be a more fulfilling life in the big city. Meanwhile Mushidi has left Nigeria and her young son to look for work. When Nurit realizes that her bus-driving job will not pay the bills and allow her to watch her children she decides to hire a nanny. Enter Mushidi who agrees to watch the children in exchange for room and board. Mushidi's smile and optimism seem to brighten the apartment immediately and soon Nurit and Mushidi are spending time together on the bustling streets of Tel Aviv. When their friendship blossoms into something more Nurit is forced to make a tough decision.System Requirements:Run Time: 95 minFormat: DVD MOVIE

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Evocative, inspiring, and fresh., November 17, 2005

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queer movie lover - See all my reviews

This review is from: Round Trip (DVD)

This is a wonderful film that covers far more bases than I anticipated.
The acting is fabulous, the filming evocative, and the story an inspiring
and fresh one that keeps your eyes glued through every minute, and then
some.

Nurit (Anat Waxman) leaves her husband and takes her two children to Tel
Aviv. As a single mother working long hours as a bus driver, she needs
help
taking care of her two admirably self-sufficient children who are lost in
the world of leaving their father and adjusting to the new city. The woman
she finally hires to help her brings the most unexpected help anyone can
imagine. What unfolds is an evocative, laughter-filled love story between
a broken Israeli family and a breath-takingly phenomenal woman from Ghana.

Shining light on broken families, interracial relationships, nationality,
class, and unexpected lesbian love, "Round Trip" is an absolutely amazing
film. It's the whole package, guarenteed.

5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not a Round Trip Rather a One-Way Trip to the 1950s, December 17, 2005

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P. Bigelow (St. Louis, MO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Round Trip (DVD)

During most of the film, the main character, Nurit, doesn't smile - she hardly seems to have any personality at all. Then she meets Mushidi who moves in with Nurit and her two children as a nanny. Nurit and Mushidi become lovers and, finally, Nurit smiles. She is obviously happy with Mushidi. But then, her estranged husband finds out about the two women and threatens to take the children from Nurit. Nurit can't give up her children so she gives up Mushidi. Mushidi, in turn, turns herself into immigration and is deported. Talk about depressing! This was such a 1950s ending, and while I wasn't sure what I was expecting, a 1950s ending was no where on my horizon.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tel-Aviv, the Jewish state., May 28, 2008

By 

Michael Kerjman - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Round Trip (DVD)

Yeah, this is a story about n o r m a l women-mothers providing for their kids, struggling to meet ties, as they exercised their true nature pressured with reality a world presents.

A typically-traditional ending of such an "amoral story" is just a way producers follow for letting their works to reach a viewer, whether two females kissing or a teen playing around ( Garcon Stupide).

Personally, I hardly understood how an illegal migrant happened from Ghana -according to a movie info provided on this page, because a six year old son of her had been to Nigeria, but it was so arranged, perhaps, for local reasons, while highlighting a non-Muslim background of a foreigner having found as many others non-Jewish (Muslims from around a globe inclusively) a refuge in the Jewish state.

A movie is the new dimension opening of Israel to me and, perhaps, to many non-Israelis.