It's hard not to like this litttle film, which is directed by Chad Hartigan and opens today at Sundance Cinemas. A black American soccer coach, Curtis (Craig Robinson), moves to Heidelberg, Germany with his son, Morris (Markees Christmas), and both experience not so much culture shock but the shock of people who have cultural expectations of black Americans. The thing is this: The white Germans (even those who live in the sticks) know a lot about black American culture, as it has been globalized by American military, economic, entertainment power. But the black Americans know very little about German culture. They are not such strangers to the Germans, but the Germans and their old and very European city is very, very strange to them. There is more.

The father is an old-skool rapper and the son is a now-skool rapper. The father is of the opinion that rap is in decline, and the son thinks the rap styles of the 90s (his father's period) sound wack. Indeed, the film opens with Jeru the Damaja's DJ Premier-produced masterpiece Come Clean, and the father trying to explain its greatness to his son, who is not having any of it. The boy, who is 13, only wants to rap about sex with hos. The enlightened stuff his father digs is too dull. The father thinks that his son must rap about what he knows, and he knows nothing about getting his dick sucked by two women. This conflict, and also the kid's growing interest in a pretty but rebellious 15-year-old German girl (she goes there and asks if he has a big dick), makes this little film fun to watch.

Morris From America also premieres on DirectTV Cinema.