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The Kite Runner
Directed by
Marc Forster
PG-13
2007
2h 8m
Drama
7.6
65%
84%
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Amir lives in California with his wife Soraya. He receives a call from his uncle Rahim Khan who urges him to travel to Afghanistan and rescue the son of Amir's childhood servant and friend, Hassan.
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Cast of The Kite Runner
Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada
Young Hassan
Atossa Leoni
Soraya
Khalid Abdalla
Amir
Elham Ehsas
Young Assef
Homayoun Ershadi
Baba
Saïd Taghmaoui
Farid
Mustafa Haidari
Party Worker
Shaun Toub
Rahim Kahn
Zekeria Ebrahimi
Young Amir
Ali Danish Bakhty Ari
Sohrab
Nabi Tanha
Ali
Bahram Ehsas
Wali
Tamim Nawabi
Kamal
Mohamad Nabi Attai
Uncle Saifo the Kite Seller
Mir Mahmood Shah Hashimi
Business Man in Baba's Study
Mohamad Nadir Sarwari
Spice Merchant
Kenny Santiago Marrero
Russian Solider (uncredited)
Abe Nevin
Kid in Park (Uncredited)
Marc Forster
Director
David Benioff
Writer
Khaled Hosseini
Writer
William Horberg
Producer
E. Bennett Walsh
Producer
Rebecca Yeldham
Producer
The Kite Runner Ratings & Reviews
I.E. Weekly
Amy Nicholson
Hosseini's over-done melodrama that doesn't so much open our eyes to Afghanistan as reinforce everything negative we've already suspected.
Film.com
Jonathan F. Richards
The Kite Runner is dramatically and visually sumptuous
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Jeff Strickler
A respectful adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's 2003 novel.
Detroit News
Tom Long
If The Kite Runner flies only to flutter and fall a bit, at least it flies for a while.
Detroit Free Press
John Monaghan
The filmmakers go by the book in The Kite Runner, a literate, if occasionally listless adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel.
Austin Chronicle
Steve Davis
An example of how good intentions don't necessarily make for a good movie.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
This is one of those stories that, on some primal level, goes straight to the heart.
San Jose Mercury News
Bruce Newman
By the time it arrives at its final kite-flying scene back in the Bay Area, The Kite Runner has soared occasionally, but remains too grounded for its own good in the book from which it was supposed to spring.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
[It] boasts one of the best performances by a child actor, ever.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
It's a haunting story.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
In a movie about a storyteller (Amir as an adult in America is played by Khalid Abdalla) the storytelling pace moves between deliberate and sluggish.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
The Kite Runner is a compelling and uplifting tale that exposes the viewer to an unfamiliar, fascinating culture and a family dynamic that is recognizable and nuanced.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
It's the childhood scenes, and the truthfulness of the boys' performances, that you remember.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
There's a lethargy and a reverence about this film that seem misplaced, as though Forster and screenwriter David Benioff thought they were adapting a sacred text and forgot they were making drama.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
This is more an entertaining than a profound film.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
The movie has two extraordinary characters and performances. Non-pro Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada breaks your heart as the innocent, wide-eyed child Hassan, and Homayoun Ershadi makes Amir's father a model of intuitive decency.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
The Marc Forster-directed version of the Khaled Hosseini novel does one part of the story so well that its success underlines what's lacking in what remains.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The Kite Runner will be loved by many moviegoers for its taste and humanity, but for all the places Forster takes us he doesn't show us anything we haven't seen.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
I wanted to see more of young Amir and Hassan, their friendship as moving and as timeless as any I could possibly imagine. As long is it focuses on them, The Kite Runner soars. If only the rest of it could fly near as high.
The Deadbolt
Brian Tallerico
Fans of the book are unlikely to be disappointed and people new to the material may find a small film that lingers in their memory much longer than the hyped big ones.
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