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Not Without My Daughter [DVD] [1991]
enlarge	Director: Brian Gilbert Actors: Sally Field, Alfred Molina, Sheila Rosenthal Studio: MGM Entertainment Category: DVD List Price: ~~£12.99~~ Buy New: £2.34 as of 25/11/2009 16:01 GMT details You Save: £10.65 (82%) New (14) Used (2) from £2.34 Seller: fastdvd2006 Rating: 15 reviews Sales Rank: 7183 Format: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), German (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), Danish (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), Finnish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled), Norwegian (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Dubbed), German (Dubbed), Italian (Dubbed), Polish (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed) Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over Region: 2 Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 111 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5050070023213 ASIN: B0006L7OAC Theatrical Release Date: 1991 Release Date: February 7, 2005 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.co.uk Review The Arab anti-defamation leagues understandably had a field day with this one. Sally Field plays Betty Mahmoody, an American who marries an Iranian (Alfred Molina) and has a child. They go back to Iran for a visit and, to her horror, he tells her he's decided to stay there. If she wants to leave, she must leave her daughter behind. If she stays, Betty must live in a culture vastly different and, she believes, very dangerous. Part thriller, part culture clash, the film certainly takes advantage of Americans' perceptions of Iran after the unrest of the '70s and early '80s. Molina is truly despicable as the husband, while Field projects a lot of overheated anguish as Betty tries to figure out a way to escape the country with her daughter. Overheated, in fact, is the word for the whole melodrama. i--Marshall Fine, amazon.com/i

Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 15 1 2 3 Next » a harrowing tale of a clash of cultures May 24, 2005 Alejandra Vernon (Long Beach, California) 31 out of 32 found this review helpful Based on Betty Mahmoody's account of her 18 months in Iran, this is a gripping, emotional roller coaster of a film that kept me riveted to the screen for all of its 115 minutes.brThough fearful, Betty agreed to go for a two-week visit to Iran with her husband Moody and daughter Mahtob, only to find at the end of the two weeks that her husband was fired from his job in the US, and he has no intention of leaving Iran. Moody's family are primitive village people, very extreme in their views, and Moody, at first to "save face, and then perhaps degenerating into the man he was before being "Americanized", inceasingly controls Betty with force and humiliation, all within the Ayatollah Khomeni's insane and rigorous Islamic state of 1984. pHer struggle to get out of Iran with her daughter is what this film is about (it would have been easy to leave alone), and there are many brave Iranians who risk their lives to help her. The claim that this film is racist is irrational, doesn't take these heroic people into consideration, and is an example of the narrow-minded intolerance shown in this film, a mindset that led to 9/11. brThough made in 1990, this is a very timely film to watch, and relates to the problem of abuse in every culture. I don't understand why it has slipped under the radar screen and is not more widely known. The acting is excellent by the entire cast, and the direction by Brian Gilbert is tight and feels like a top-notch thriller at times, with Jerry Goldsmith's terrific score and Peter Hannan's wonderful cinematography, shot on location in Israel, which is fantastic in the last portion of the film.brSally Field and Alfred Molina give the performance of their lives, in what is much more than a "woman's film"; this is a film about humanity and extraordinary courage, and should have a much wider audience than it has had. Ant- muslim u must be joking. March 8, 2006 Mr. T. Mafela (Redhill, Surrey United Kingdom) 8 out of 11 found this review helpful This review is for the guy who said this movie is anti-muslim and propaganda.First of all this movie is done in 1990, thats before all this 9\ll B*****T and the new muslim STEREOTYPE .brSo how can it be propaganda, its just a story about how a mother is deceived by her husband and a clash of cultures. a real treasure March 2, 2009 Josephine M. Sherard (Spain) 2 out of 2 found this review helpful after reading the book I was so thrilled to see the DVD. It was excellent the casting superb and the scenary very realistic. What made it very personal was that my husband was in a similar position in 1985. He came out via Quetta, Pakistan. This film shows the dangers and the heart of the situation for many women these days. It was well documented and true to the book. NOT AT ALL PROPAGANDA April 9, 2008 Ms. L. J. Mckeever (UK) 3 out of 4 found this review helpful 1. It does not glorify a woman taking her daughter illegally out of iran and depriving her husband of her, it highlights the way she was trapped and beaten to within an inch of her life by her husband and had to resort to such measures. By saying that it is wrong for her to do so leads me to believe that you would glorify what her husband believed to be 'righteous' beatings of betty mahmoody and mahtob to keep them in Iran. I would say Betty was the lesser of two evils here by far. br /2.Her husband in no way deserved the presence of his wife or his daughter following subjecting them to the cruelest of patriarchal societies where women are forced to be subordinate by tricking them in to the country. and how did he do this? By swearing on the Koran. br /3.How is a TRUE STORY in any way propaganda? Betty Mahmoody revealed her plight in escaping from a fanatic monster. She highlights at many points during the book (which i doubt the smart ** who made the propaganda comment bothered to read) how beautiful and pious she viewed the muslim religion as being, she admitted that not everyone in Iran was evil and she displayed affection for the fact that her husband once was amazing. If it was propaganda she would have from start to beginning made deflamatory and untrue comments about the Iranian population, her husband and the muslim religion. br / br /Betty Mahmoody was a brave woman for taking Mahtob and standing up to the fanatical and cruel Iranian regime and she was even braver for writing about it. To say this film is propaganda is highly insulting to her, her daughter and those members of the muslim religion and Iranian population who are great people (of which there are many). You've taken a dim and uneducated view on a film because you cannot face up to the obvious evils that do surround communities, the irony being I am sure Betty could admit to her own country being cruel also. Your post shows lack of intellect and breeding. br / br /THIS BOOK AND FILM IS GREAT! Controversial but non the less thought-provoking January 17, 2009 Mr. C. Napier-Kristiansson (Scotland/Luxembourg) 1 out of 2 found this review helpful Betty Mahmoody's written account, like the filmed version, was always going to be controversial from the start. I think how the film will be appreciated will depend on the varied religious, social and cultural backgrounds that viewers come from. In view of recent media events, and the challenges and threats posed to the Western media in criticising Islam, it is perhaps even more interesting. br / br /The film clearly had creative hurdles to deal with, notwithstanding elements such as the compression of time, the visual expression/interpretation of the narrative and all the psycho-emotional elements it is meant to foreground but also how the developing clash and struggle of two diametrically opposed mindsets in a foreign context of forced estranged domesticity in Iran are played out. br / br /The film will be inevitably seen by some as being representative of a Western woman's struggle to remove herself from an abusive relationship and the constraints of a fundamentalist husband who is selfishly asserting his matrimonal hegemony over her in an accommodating culture where women's rights are questionably not realised. On the other hand, this film could equally be seen as being disparaging of the man's right to go back to the land of his birth and bring his child up in the way he feels is right for him. br / br /The question that this film poses us is not just who is right or wrong, but can we necessarily transplant one set of firmly established, hard-fought human rights and morality to another culture where they for religious, political and socio-cultural reasons may not only have non-equivalent value, but where also the whole concept and the dynamics of man, woman and child relationships is non-interchangeable. br / br /From this point alone, the film is good in stimulating debate and asking uncomfortable questions - from both perspectives. br / Showing reviews 1-5 of 15 1 2 3 Next »

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