In the city of Jaffa; a young girl plans to run away with her secret lover, when a tragedy forever changes the course of their lives. Jaffa is a mixed Arabic - Jewish seaside city near Tel Aviv, where Reuven Wolf (Moni Moshonov) has a garage for repairing cars. His wife Ossi (Ronit Elkabetz), a vain, self-centered woman, just makes everybody's life difficult. The couple's daughter, Mali Wolf (Dana Ivgy), has secretly fallen in love with her childhood friend, the young Toufik (newcomer Mahmud Shalaby), a hard-working youth who has come as a helping hand to his Israeli-Arab father Hassan, a long-time mechanic working for Reuven.
Jaffa has generally received positive reviews.
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Jaffa was released in 2009 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 12 reviews, giving Jaffa (2009) an average rating of 62%.
Overall, cinema-goers marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 68%, compared to film critics, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 60%.
With a score of 62%, Jaffa is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2009, which stands at 57%.
Other movies from 2009 with similar scores include films like Whatever Works, Saved and Just Friends?.
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