Checkpoint

Drama

🏆 Fan Favorite

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Parviz Sayyad

Status Released

Release Date 1987-08-14

Storyline

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.