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| Director: Marc Forster
Actors: Khalid Abdalla, Atossa Leoni, Shaun Toub, Sayed Jafar Masihullah Gharibzada, Zekeria Ebrahimi
Studio: Paramount
Category: Movie
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Avg. Customer Rating:  105 reviews
Sales Rank: 4752
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 128
Theatrical Release Date: January 1, 2007
Release Date: October 22, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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 Good Foreign Film December 25, 2007
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
With English subtitles. The rape scene was tastefully done (no nudity or expletives), so am not sure what all the controversy was about. As with most foreign films, it is difficult to focus on the emotional content of the principal characters when you have to read through the subtitles. Nevertheless, this film will surely be nominated for 2007 Best Foreign Film.
 Superb!!! December 14, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Everything about this movie is great. I am sure it will win many prices in every festival.
I hoped these kinds of movies would hit box office instead of many mindless movies. I found only 3 movie theaters in the entire state of MA that played this touching movie. WHAT A PITY!
The theme music was just amazing. It was a great idea to have the movie in dari/pashtoo with subtitles. This made the movie very realistic and original!
All the movie casts were chosen as if they were tailored for their role.... no word would explain the greatness of this artwork but to go and watch it and let your heart judge...
"The Kite Runner" Soars September 30, 2007
23 out of 25 found this review helpful
Quite simply, "The Kite Runner" is magnificent. Based on the acclaimed bestselling novel by Khaled Hosseini, the film is epic in scope, spanning a number of decades, continents, and cultures, and yet it remains intimate and personal in terms of its characters and their stories. It is spectacularly photographed, sensitively directed, hauntingly scored, and impeccably acted by a brilliant cast whose performances are meticulously nuanced. Even the opening credit sequence is fascinating, foreshadowing through calligraphy the differences in Western and Middle Eastern culture that will be a subtheme of the movie.
The story opens in 21st century San Francisco, where a young man from Afghanistan (the charismatic Khalid Abdalla as Amir) has just published his first novel. In flashbacks, he recalls his childhood in Afghanistan, and particularly his relationship with his best friend Hassan, the child of his father's oldest friend and live-in servant. The two boys (played by Zekeria Ebrahemi and Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada, both of whom turn in performances of amazing depth) are eventually driven apart by an act of childish cowardice by the young Amir. They lose contact all together after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, at which time Amir and his father (Homayon Ashadi in a wonderfully understated performance) flee to Pakistan and then eventually to America. Years pass, and then, finally, the adult Amir is provided with an opportunity to redeem himself. The decision that he makes, and the consequences that unfold, bring the story full circle to its powerful conclusion.
I was fortunate enough to see this film as part of a single screening that played to a sold-out audience (dozens and dozens of disappointed cinemagoers ended up being turned away after demand exceeded supply), and expectations were almost impossibly high. Happily, Marc Forster (who also directed "Finding Neverland", "Monster's Ball", and is currently set to direct the 22nd James Bond film) and company satisfied even the most demanding members of the audience, as ripples of gentle laughter gave way to surpised gasps and finally to unsentimental tears as the story unfolded. Here is a film destined to win over audiences and critics alike, one that will undoubtedly end up being one of the year's short list of bona fide masterpieces.
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