Jan 30, 2015 By Zach Hollwedel

Martin Starr, best known for his work in such television comedies as Freaks and Geeks, Party Down, and Silicon Valley, stars in writer-director Sean Mullin’s feature film debut, Amira & Sam. A slightly different sort of role in Starr’s filmography, Amira & Sam is a romantic comedy that deals with some heavy subject matter. In the film, Starr plays Sam, a recently-returned war veteran with hopes of becoming a standup comedian, who enters into a potentially lucrative business partnership with his cousin. Along the way, meets Amira, an Iraqi immigrant whose family has suffered devastating losses in the ongoing war. Despite their differences and the threat of Amira’s impending deportation, the two discover they might be perfectly matched for one another. More