The Kite Runner
by Marc Forster
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Actor: Homayoun Ershadi, L. Peter Callender, Larry Brown, Sa?d Taghmaoui, Shaun ToubDirector: Marc Forster
Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
Cinematographer: Roberto Schaefer
Composer: Alberto Iglesias
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Russian (Original Language); Urdu (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 127 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-25
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Dreamworks Video
Movie Reviews of The Kite Runner
Movie Review: Outstanding
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought the DVD and was so impressed by the story - growing up in Afganistan before,during and after the Russian presence, the acting - especially from the two main young actors, well everything really, that I bought the Blu Ray as soon as it became available. The benefits over the DVD are quite simply better sound and picture quality - not that the DVD is deficient, it just doesn't quite have the edge over the blu ray. One of the best foreign (non English speaking) movies I have seen.
Summary of The Kite Runner
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.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
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