Director: Marc Forster Screenplay: David Benioff Novel: Khaled Hosseini Genre: Drama Country: USA Certification: 12+ Language: English/ Dari/ Pashtu/ Urdu/ Russian MAIN CAST: Khalid Abdalla [Amir - adult] Zekeria Ebrahimi [Amir - child] Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada [Hassan - child] Homayoun Ershadi [Baba] Shaun Toub [Rahim Khan] SUMMARY: Amir and Hassan are best friends regardless of their social differences - Amir is the son of a wealthy Pushtun businessman, while as Hassan, who is a Hazara minority, is a servant within Amir's home. The boys spend much of ...  Read the complete review

I recently reactivated my Lovefilm subscription (clearly a 14-film Alfred Hitchcock box set isn't enough for me) and one of the first films I received was The Kite Runner. I haven't read the book, but I have read and enjoyed Khaled Hossini's other novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, so I was looking forward to watching this. The film starts with main character Amir, living in the US, celebrating the publication of his first book. He gets a call from an old friend of his father, and then the story flashes back to Amir's childhood in 1970s Afghanistan. He is from a wealthy family and even then harboured dreams of becoming an author, spending lots of time with his ...  Read the complete review

FILM ONLY REVIEW Amir is living in America where he moved to with his father several years previously from Afghanistan after the Russians invaded. He is happily married and has just received his first book which has been published but as he is celebrating he gets a phone call. The call is from an old friend back in Afghanistan called Rahim who was like a second father to Amir. He asks Amir to go back home a he needs to see and speak to him but Amir is then distracted by memories of Afghan and we go back to his childhood. He grew up with his Father as his Mother dies during childbirth and he is best friends with their servants son called Hassan. ...  Read the complete review

Amir and Hassan grew up together in seventies Kabul. Despite the fact that their backgrounds are very different - Amir is the son of a wealthy man, whereas Hassan is the son of a servant and of another race - they are very close; so close that Hassan will do anything for Amir. Unfortunately, the relationship does not work so well the other way, and when Hassan is attacked and raped by some older boys one day, Amir stands by and lets it happen. Then the Soviet invasion of Kabul happens and Amir and his father escape, eventually finding their way to America. After many years, when Amir is beginning to make his name as a writer, he hears from an old family friend who tells .  Read the complete review

The Kite Runner is a film directed by Marc Foster, based on a novel by Khaled Hosseini. Released in 2007 it was nominated for both an Academy Award and two Golden Globes. In my opinion it is a travesty that this film did not end up winning anything, it is fascinating, beautiful and a wonderful story. Plot ------ The film is set for the most part in Kabul, Afghanistan with some integrated scenes of the present day in America. The drama centres on a young Amir, son of a well to do and well known anti-communist, Baba, and best friends with Hassan, the son of the family servent Ali. The pair are a kite flying team and regularly compete ...  Read the complete review