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The Kite Runner [HD DVD] [2007] [US Import]
 
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DVD ~ L. Peter Callender
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  • Actors: L. Peter Callender, Larry Brown, Saïd Taghmaoui, Shaun Toub, Homayoun Ershadi
  • Directors: Marc Forster, Rebecca Yeldham
  • Format: AC-3, Colour, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: Dreamworks Video
  • DVD Release Date: 25 Mar 2008
  • Run Time: 127 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • ASIN: B0012PN8AG

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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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4.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant , 14 Jan 2009
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This review is from: The Kite Runner [DVD] [2007] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
This is a rather simple story of the friendship of 2 boys growing up in the streets of Kabul before the Soviet invasion. Something terrible happens that destroys that friendship and the boys split never to see each other again.

The locations in China provided a perfect match for Kabul and nearby mountains and the performances are excellent.

Perhaps the violence is superfluous but provides an insight in the atrocities of the Taliban.

Overall a well directed, well acted, beautifully set movie about childhood friendship.
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