The Kite Runner
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Rating:
25.025.025.025.025.0
Medium:
DVD
Release Date:
3/25/2008
Theatrical Date:
1/1/2007
Date Imported:
11/23/2008
List Price:
$29.99
Genre:
Drama
Studio:
Dreamworks Video
Cast:
Khalid Abdalla / Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada / Atossa Leoni / Shaun Toub / Sayed Jafar Masihullah Gharibzada
Director:
Marc Forster
Audience Rating:
PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35:1
DVD Region:
1
Running Time:
128
Format:
AC-3 / Color / Dolby / Dubbed / DVD-Video / Subtitled / Widescreen / NTSC
Language:
English (Dolby Digital 5.1) / Russian (Original Language) / Urdu (Original Language) / English (Subtitled) / Spanish (Subtitled) / French (Subtitled) / French (Dolby Digital 5.1) / Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1)
EAN:
0097361179742
UPC:
097361179742
Flag:
1-month loan to Richard D beginning 7/9/2009
Description:

Description Amir is a young Afghani from a well-to-do Kabul family; his best friend Hassan is the son of a family servant. Together the two boys form a bond of friendship that breaks tragically on one fateful day, when Amir fails to save his friend from brutal neighborhood bullies. Amir and Hassan become separated, and as first the Soviets and then the Taliban seize control of Afghanistan, Amir and his father escape to the United States to pursue a new life. Years later, Amir – now an accomplished author living in San Francisco – is called back to Kabul to right the wrongs he and his father committed years ago.

Amazon.com Like the bestselling book upon which it's based, The Kite Runner will haunt the viewer long after the film is over. A tale of childhood betrayal, innocence and harsh reality, and dreamy memory, The Kite Runner faces good and evil--and the path between them, though often blurry and sorrowfully relative. Director Marc Forster (Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland) presents a painterly vision of Afghanistan before the Soviet tanks, before the Taliban--lush, verdant, fertile--in its landscape and in its people and their history and hopes. The story follows two young boys' friendship, tested beyond endurance, and the haunting of their adult selves by what happened in their youth--and what horrors befall their country in the meantime. The performances of the two boys--Zekeria Ebrahimi (Amir) and Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada (Hassan)--are the film's strongest, unforced and gently evocative. The penance paid by their adult selves is foreshadowed, but never predictable--and the metaphor of innocence lost, a common theme in Forster's work, keeps the film, like the title kites, truly aloft.--A.T. Hurley

Average Customer Rating:
4.0