Our story begins in Alpena, Michigan, 1984. Betty Mahmoody lived happily with her husband Moody and their daughter Mahtob. Moody is from Iran. He came to America 20 years ago and works as a doctor at the hospital. Unfortunately, many fellow doctors made cracks about Iranians right in front of him. Moody truly missed his family and his country. Members of his family, Mammal and Nasserine, just had a baby boy. Moody wanted to go see them and he wanted to bring Betty and Mahtob with him. Betty was very reluctant to go to Iran because it was such a wartorn, oppressive, primitive and dangerous country, but Moody swore--on the Holy Koran, that everything would be alright and they would return in 2 weeks tops. Betty agreed and so the family boards a plane to Iran. Little did Betty know that she had just boarded a one-way flight to Hell; Moody's family was waiting to greet them. There was Moody's sister, Ameh Bozorg, and Mammal, Nasserine, Zia, Fereshte, Zoreh, Reza, and Baby Hajji. Downtown Tehran was a very strange place: posters of the Ayatollah everywhere, military personnel patrolling the streets and all women wore head coverings. Betty had to wear one too. They stay in Ameh Bozorg's house, but she seemed to hold a grudge towards Moody for an unknown reason; Two weeks quickly passed and Betty was eager to return to America, but then Moody dropped a bomb shell. Two actually: first, he was fired from the hospital and second, he said they were not going back and that they were to stay and live in Iran. He wanted Mahtob to become a Muslim. Betty was shocked beyond comprehension. Moody had made up his mind and forced his wife and daughter to stay. Seven months later after Mahtob's 6th birthday, Betty learns her father is very ill and so Moody grants her permission to go home to the U.S. to see him. The bad news: Mahtob had to stay in Iran. Meanwhile, Hamid arranged travel for Betty on the 29th, but Moody booked Betty a flight for the 26th. And so as soon as Betty and Mahtob could get away, they phoned Hamid and begged him to move back the date. So he did. That night, they began their dangerous, treacherous journey out of Iran and to Turkey. First Betty called Moody and told him where to stick it, then they drive with Hamid's friends out of town and through checkpoints. They had to switch cars numerous times and eventually make it out to the desert. The dry lands. The treacherous mountains. But finally, after a very long, dangerous, windy, stormy journey, Betty and Mahtob find themselves back in civilization. Next stop: The U.S. Embassy. That's when Betty sees the most beautiful sight she had seen in a very long time: The American flag. Finally, it was all over. They were going home. February, 1986, Betty and Mahtob return home.
very good film woman gets married to foreigner and goes back to live in his home country and she eventually trys to leave him but he insis on keeping her and his daughter and the laws are so diffent there and the man is the boss of the house in there eyes in his country....
THIS MOVIE SHOWS HOW
THIS WOMAN HAD THE COU
RAGE TO ESCAPE FROM IRAN WITH HER DAUGTHER
AND ALSO SHOWS THAT NOT ALL IRANIANS ARE NOT
BAD PEOPLE, YOU MAY FIND
GOOD AND BAD IN EVERY RACE,COLOR, CREED,RELIGION AND NATIONALITY.
I'm An iranian And A Lot Of People Said That This Is an Insult To Iranian & Blah Blah Blah! Actually It's Not We Are Used to it But iran Is Like that
The Scenes Are Very moving & The Movie Is Packed with Entertainment Very Well Made Field Is Great And the Locations ARE GREAT
I enjoyed this a lot. Sally Field and Alfred Molina are both great, and I feel for them both. It really makes you think about culture and how strongly it molds us.
This movie is VERY emotionally draining! Since it's based on a true story, you really do put yourself in the mother's place and wonder if you could have done all that she did! 5 stars, no doubt about it!
A co-worker had told me about this after she saw me reading a book called "Out of Iran" by Sousan Azadi. The two are drastically different, this being an American who goes with her husband to Iran, then can't get home, and the book I was reading was about an Iranian woman who flees to the US with her son because their lives are in danger.
Anyway, I have to say that this was unfortunately boring, especially given my high hopes for it. I regret to say I didn't watch the entire thing exactly for that reason... I was tired, and I wasnt interested enough to miss out on an extra hours sleep. (Hey, I have a month old son--my priorities are rearranged now!)
I also didn't like how Sally Field calls Iran primitive--was there actually a reason for that other than to get Americans puffed up with patriotism? To say something is different, foreign, strange, that is one thing, but to call it primitive... how can you expect tolerance when you can't tolerate someone else?
Anyway, the Flisxter synopsis sums this up nicely when it calls it a melodrama. I'm not surprised, then, to see the ratio of female flixterites liked this more (not much, but still) than the males on here.
The dad in this movie was soo messed up.. messed up in the head seriously. But other than that, this was educational and soo interesting... 5 stars babyy..
This movie was a very sad true story.Sally fields was great in this movie.Made me think how proud i am to live in american and have the freedom i have:0)
really touching about a mum who goes with her iran husband to iran..and there he kidnaps her and forbids her to get home to america....and he beats her ...she cant even answer the phone...later she can go but without her daughter but she refuses and plans to escape.....based on true happenings
"Jamais sans ma fille"? If yes i've watched it woah talk about havind "Mathub" as a second name....And it sickens me the way the father changes his face, when he rejoins his home town....But i'm suire this is what truly happens in real life. Thank God I live here, in a peacefull country were religion isn't a big burden to be suffered....
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