Actresses Aghdashloo, Harden "Game" for duel

By Borys Kit

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Shohreh Aghdashloo and Marcia Gay Harden have competed for an Oscar and are up against each other at this month's Primetime Emmys. Now they'll go head to head in the indie drama "The No Game."

Sherry Horman is directing the coming-of-age piece, which centers on an 18-year-old Jewish woman who finds out that her biological mother is Palestinian. The search for her identity takes her to an aunt (Aghdashloo) in Brooklyn, where their bonding causes problems with her adoptive mother (Harden, who is in negotiations).

David Abramowitz and Elizabeth Fein wrote the screenplay.

Aghdashloo and Harden were Oscar-nominated in 2004 for their respective work in "House of Sand and Fog" and "Mystic River," and they're nominated for Emmys this year for "House of Saddam" and "The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler."

Aghdashloo stars in this year's "The Stoning of Soraya M." Harden, who won a recent Tony for "God of Carnage," next appears in "Whip It!," Drew Barrymore's feature directing debut.

(Editing by Sheri Linden at Reuters)