![]() ![]() By the time the laughably anticlimactic finish rolls around, Not Without My Daughter has undoubtedly cemented its place as an aggressively simplistic and misguided disaster that’s as dull as it is offensive. In this thriller based on a true story, an Iranian-American man takes his American wife and daughter to visit Iran, only to keep them hostage there. Betty's husband is a fanatically religious Islamic and doesn't intend to bring his family back to America. It's just a vacation, her husband promises. There’s little doubt, however, that the absurdly black-and-white bent of Rintels’ script paves the way for an uninvolving, repetitive midsection that’s hardly able to generate the suspense and tension one might’ve anticipated, and it’s clear, too, that the crushingly tedious atmosphere ensures that the narrative’s overtly exciting elements, especially Betty and Mahtob’s inevitable third-act attempt at escape, fall completely and utterly flat. A fact-based thriller about a Michigan housewife, Betty Mahmoody (Sally Field), who has come to the Middle East with her young daughter (Sheila Rosenthal) and Iranian-born doctor husband (Alfred Molina). Rintels’ screenplay, delivers an often comically broad and hopelessly less-than-subtle trainwreck that grows more and more intolerable as time slowly progresses – which is too bad, ultimately, given that the picture does get off to a decent start and boasts strong performances by its two leads. Embeth Davidtz, Colm Feore, Paul Giamatti, Sally Field. Not Without My Daughter (1991) Stars: Sally Field, Alfred Molina, Sheila Rosenthal, Roshan Seth Director: Brian Gilbert Moody Mahmoody (Alfred Molina) sure. It’s a decent-enough premise that’s employed to pervasively and stunningly unwatchable effect by Brian Gilbert, as the filmmaker, armed with David W. Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Alfred Molina The PG-13 movie has a runtime of about 2 hr 7. ![]() When Moody informs her that he wants her and their daughter, Mahtob (Sheila Rosenthal), to visit Iran with him, Betty is reluctant because of the countrys harsh tre atment of women. ![]() Based on true events, Not Without My Daughter follows Sally Field’s Betty Mahmoody as she struggles to escape from Iran (and the clutches of her husband, Alfred Molina’s Moody) with her four year old (Sheila Rosenthal’s Mahtob). Betty Mahmoody (Sally Field) is an American woman married to 'Moody' (Alfred Molina), an Iranian-American living in the United States. ![]()
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