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The Kite Runner
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
EAN: 0097361179742
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 20
Label: Dreamworks Video
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1Russian (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1Urdu (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Manufacturer: Dreamworks Video
MPN: 117974
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Dreamworks Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Running Time: 127 minutes
Studio: Dreamworks Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Editorial Review:
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
Amir is a young Afghani from a well-to-do Kabul family; his best friend Hassan is the son of a family servant. Together the two boys form a bond of friendship that breaks tragically on one fateful day when Amir fails to save his friend from brutal neighborhood bullies. Amir and Hassan become separated and as first the Soviets and then the Taliban seize control of Afghanistan Amir and his father escape to the United States to pursue a new life. Years later Amir now an accomplished author living in San Francisco is called back to Kabul to right the wrongs he and his father committed years ago.System Requirements:Running Time: 127 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/INNOCENCE LOST Rating: PG-13 UPC: 097361179742 Manufacturer No: 117974
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - worth considering
Watching this film was a rather jarring experience. Having watched it several days ago I find that I am still affected by it, enough to google it, its author, enough to come here and read reviews of it - as if to gain some sort of comfort by gathering amongst other people who have shared in the same viewing experience.
I'm pretty disappointed in the bad reviews (here) of this movie. Yes, it is largely subtitled. I understand that some people don't like subtitles, okay. I honestly ... Read More
Rating:  - Beautiful...
This is a must see movie. It was absolutely beautiful, as beautiful as the book. It touched my heart like no movie has in a very long time. I recommend it for everyone. You laugh, you cry and you feel for the characters. I also learned much about the Afghan culture, which I must admit really did not know very much about. It has changed my view of the Afghan people. It makes you value true love and friendship and how timeless the human connection is. Both the book and movie will stay in your ... Read More
Rating:  - A Disappointment
I absolutley loved the book, but the movie literally SUCKED. Totally did not do the book justice. Please read the book...screw the movie!
Rating: - Just a moving as the book!
I have to admit that I am not usually a fan of movies that are based on books. Something about the adaptations usually doesn't fit. But-this movie was an exception. It was beautiful and powerful. Of course it is impossible to include every detail from a book when it is adapted to a screenplay, but the writers, producers, actors, etc where amazing!
I have read other reviews and some people where torn on whether the use o Afghan languages with subtitles in the film added to the "realness" ... Read More
Rating: - Uplifting but formulaic
"Kite Runner" has "First Novel" written all over it. Its depiction of 1970s Afghanistan is interesting, but its hackneyed and heavy-handed plot points of boyish antics, fathers, bullies, sexual assault, betrayal, ethnic prejudice and civil war seems too calculating by half, as if designed for the sole purpose of including all the requisite ingredients for one of the middlebrow choices of Oprah's Book of the Month Club. It's an uplifting story, and with fairly likeable characters, but there's just something ... Read More
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