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Product Details:
Binding: DVD
Publisher: Paramount Home Entertainment
Publication Date:
Actors: Khalid Abdalla, Atossa Leoni, Shaun Toub,
Director: Marc Forster
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
AudienceRating: Suitable for 12 years and over
AspectRatio: 2.35:1
Formats: PAL,
Language: English, Original Language,
RegionCode: 2
RunningTime: 122 minutes
Package Dimensions: 0.58 x 7.1 x 5.42 inches
ReleaseDate: 2008-06-02
EditorialReview: 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, 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
1: No Country For Old Men [2007]
2: Brick Lane [2007]
3: The Diving Bell And The Butterfly [2007]
4: Into the Wild [2007]
5: Juno [2007]
Customer Id: A30W4OB2YZ87Q8 2008-11-19
Review Summary: A good film on friendship (true and betrayed)
Review Content: A good poetic look on Afghan pre-wars (80') society, with a rich and poors, casts and kites. All vanished in the storm of russian invasion and taliban's terror. Two boys, two brothers, a sad story of violence and treason, with a "sugar" happy final (but the movie isn't a "easy" film). Good cast, good plot. Only some scenes "a little" unreal, like the David vs Goliath escape from Talibans.
End of product details for 'The Kite Runner [2007]'
Publisher: Paramount Home Entertainment
Publication Date:
Actors: Khalid Abdalla, Atossa Leoni, Shaun Toub,
Director: Marc Forster
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
AudienceRating: Suitable for 12 years and over
AspectRatio: 2.35:1
Formats: PAL,
Language: English, Original Language,
RegionCode: 2
RunningTime: 122 minutes
Package Dimensions: 0.58 x 7.1 x 5.42 inches
ReleaseDate: 2008-06-02
EditorialReview: 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, 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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3: The Diving Bell And The Butterfly [2007]
4: Into the Wild [2007]
5: Juno [2007]
Customer Reviews:
0 out of 0 people found the following review helpfulCustomer Id: A30W4OB2YZ87Q8 2008-11-19 Review Summary: A good film on friendship (true and betrayed)
Review Content: A good poetic look on Afghan pre-wars (80') society, with a rich and poors, casts and kites. All vanished in the storm of russian invasion and taliban's terror. Two boys, two brothers, a sad story of violence and treason, with a "sugar" happy final (but the movie isn't a "easy" film). Good cast, good plot. Only some scenes "a little" unreal, like the David vs Goliath escape from Talibans.
0 out of 0 people found the following review helpful
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Customer Id: A3NYM6Z7DZHFF7 2008-10-23
Review Summary: Emotional
Review Content: This is not my normal sort of movie, but watched this with a friend. The film starts quite slowly, building up the background of our main characters and eventually moves to a very emotional climax. With an excellent script, story and acting, this movie has you getting frustrated with the characters and going through all that they are. With an interesting view of how Afghanistan and the Taliban are, this moving really opens your eyes and makes you think.
Customer Id: A3NYM6Z7DZHFF7 2008-10-23 Review Summary: Emotional
Review Content: This is not my normal sort of movie, but watched this with a friend. The film starts quite slowly, building up the background of our main characters and eventually moves to a very emotional climax. With an excellent script, story and acting, this movie has you getting frustrated with the characters and going through all that they are. With an interesting view of how Afghanistan and the Taliban are, this moving really opens your eyes and makes you think.
0 out of 0 people found the following review helpful
Customer Id: A1TU1EDHPX0I0V 2008-10-11
Review Summary: Love those foreign films...
Review Content: Well done, heart-warming story, excellent actors, interesting culture and location/scenery - I highly recommend it.
Customer Id: A1TU1EDHPX0I0V 2008-10-11 Review Summary: Love those foreign films...
Review Content: Well done, heart-warming story, excellent actors, interesting culture and location/scenery - I highly recommend it.
0 out of 0 people found the following review helpful
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Customer Id: A1WT4MREHXZQ9D 2008-10-02
Review Summary: Disappointed
Review Content: One of those films you think you should see because it's been raved about. I found it slightly dull and not much happens most of the time.
Customer Id: A1WT4MREHXZQ9D 2008-10-02 Review Summary: Disappointed
Review Content: One of those films you think you should see because it's been raved about. I found it slightly dull and not much happens most of the time.
0 out of 0 people found the following review helpful
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Customer Id: A37E1O1JYRADSI 2008-09-27
Review Summary: Read the book
Review Content: Rarely does a film adaptation of a book manage to do justice to the original, and I have to say this is no exception. Whilst magnificently cast the film is too brief, goes at too quick a pace and glosses over key moments that the book expresses so eloquently. A prime example of this is Amir's final confrontation with long time tormentor Assef which has been reduced here to little more than a smash and grab yarn. 'Kite runner' is a very powerful tale of friendship, betrayal,remorse and redemption but you will miss out on many colourful details without reading the book. The film is agreeable and faithful in character, but not great.
Customer Id: A37E1O1JYRADSI 2008-09-27 Review Summary: Read the book
Review Content: Rarely does a film adaptation of a book manage to do justice to the original, and I have to say this is no exception. Whilst magnificently cast the film is too brief, goes at too quick a pace and glosses over key moments that the book expresses so eloquently. A prime example of this is Amir's final confrontation with long time tormentor Assef which has been reduced here to little more than a smash and grab yarn. 'Kite runner' is a very powerful tale of friendship, betrayal,remorse and redemption but you will miss out on many colourful details without reading the book. The film is agreeable and faithful in character, but not great.
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