A Mighty Heart [HD DVD]
by Michael Winterbottom
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Actor: Angelina Jolie, Archie Panjabi, Dan Futterman, Irrfan Khan, Mohammed AfzalDirector: Michael Winterbottom
Brand: Paramount
Producer: Andrew Eaton
Producer: Anita Overland
Producer: Arti Gupta
Producer: Brad Pitt
Producer: Dede Gardner
Writer: John Orloff
Writer: Mariane Pearl
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: Arabic (Original Language); English (Original Language); French (Original Language); Urdu (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 108 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-16
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount Vantage
Movie Reviews of A Mighty Heart [HD DVD]
Movie Review: Hero, Heroic Love
Summary: 4 Stars
Daniel Pearl's story is truthfully told in this movie, but it is told through the eyes of the woman who shares Pearl's legend as a hero, his wife. I'm not a big fan of Angelina Jolie, but I consider her performance in "A Mighty Heart" the best she has delivered.
True, the movie was criticized for not having enough details about Daniel's suffering in captivity. It's even documented that Daniel's friend Asra Nomani criticized the movie saying :" Danny himself had been cut from his own story". However, we need to understand that the intent of movie is to show the heart break of a woman who lost the love of her life in a horrible way. The documentary about Pearl is a must see and this movie is not in any way a substitute for that documentary. The movie tells a story, from Marian Pearl's point of view, of heroic love and a lovely soul that were so cruelly and horribly destroyed.
Marian Pearl understood that the killers were not about religion, as Daniel's best friend was a Muslim (Asra Nomani). The book, as well as the movie, shows Marian's political/spiritual maturity and understanding of the big and nasty political game.
Summary of A Mighty Heart [HD DVD]
Based on Mariane Pearl's account of the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl's life and death.A Mighty Heart comes at the murder of journalist Daniel Pearl with a de-glamorized intensity: it's not a melodrama about Pearl's kidnapping and killing at the hands of Islamic terrorists, but a near-documentary about the process of trying to find him. Thus the center of the film is not Pearl (Dan Futterman) but his wife Mariane (Angelina Jolie), a cool customer who manages--almost--to maintain her calm throughout the weeks-long ordeal. Director Michael Winterbottom is less overtly political here than in his Road to Guantanamo, although the reactions of various authorities, from U.S. officials to local Pakistani cops, give the flavor of different attitudes and approaches. Jolie, playing the Dutch-Afro-Cuban Mariane Pearl, does nicely at playing her character's control (others marvel at her sangfroid), yet she remains recognizably human throughout. By no means a star turn, the movie leaves Mariane for long stretches, and other actors shine: Irfan Khan as a detective, Denis O'Hare as Daniel Pearl's Washington Post editor, and Will Patton as a stymied diplomat. As engrossing as the movie generally is, the point of emphasizing the police-procedural method is sometimes obscure. Oddly enough, by rejecting the usual string-pulling of conventional Hollywood drama, A Mighty Heart ends up without a strong point of view--as good as its pieces are. --Robert Horton
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