Signature Move does a lot of things right, even though it isn’t the best movie ever. It’s a love story and an homage to Lucha Libre and luchadoras.

Signature Move stars Fawzia Mirza as Zaynab, a Pakistani American lawyer. She lives with her mother Parveen (Shabana Azmi), a widow who doesn’t do much except watch Pakistani soaps on TV. Zaynab is also a deeply closeted lesbian.

A couple things happen to Zaynab that shake up her quiet life. One of her immigration clients Jayde (Audrey Francis) has no cash to pay for her services so she offers a trade. Jayde will teach Zaynab to wrestle. Jayde’s a prize winning luchadora with a bum knee who has become a coach.

Zaynab starts getting thrown around a wrestling ring.

The second thing that happened is Zaynab sat down next to Alma (Sari Sanchez) in a bar one day. They started drinking, got drunk, and spent the night together. That would have been the end of it, but Zaynab had to go retrieve her ID, which Alma had. She and Alma started seeing each other. A lot.

It turned out that Alma’s mother, Rosa (Charin Alvarez) was a famous luchadora herself. She was well aware of Alma’s sexuality and supported her daughter.

While Alma and Zaynab are spending lots of time together (although Zaynab was really skittish about public displays of affection) the wrestling story was also developing.

Zaynab’s mother Parveen added a lot of humor to the story. She watched people with binoculars outside her window, looking for a potential husband for her daughter. She also spied things in her house with binoculars and talked to herself in funny ways.

Like any romcom worthy of the name, Zaynab and Alma have a big fight right before the third act and break up. Also like any romcom worthy of the name, they will make up later and maybe it will involve wrestling.

Fawzia Mirza co-wrote the film in addition to starring in it. Jennifer Reeder directed. The film is a mix of English, Spanish, and Urdu. You can see it on Tubi, Prime, Plex, The Roku Channel, or Fawesome. It isn’t the perfect movie, but I enjoyed it very much.