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Spoiler Points for The Kite Runner (2008) [PG-13] 122 minutes
WIP™ Scale: $13.25
DVD Release Date: 25 March 2008 (click date to purchase or pre-order)
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Movie Spoiler Points (which may also spoil the book):
• Young Amir (Zekeria Ebrahimi) fails to stick up for his friend, Young Hassan (Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada) on more than one occasion, but stands paralyzed down the street as Hassan is sodomized by the neighborhood bully and son of one of his father's associates, Young Assef (Elham Ehsas). His shame from his own cowardice prompts him ultimately to begin distancing himself from his childhood best friend and eventually implicate him in stealing his wristwatch—and act that causes Hassan's father and life-long servant of Amir's father to resign and move away.
• Shortly thereafter, Amir's father (Homayoun Ershadi) leaves the country to avoid becoming a target of the Soviet military invasion having been previously a vocal opponent of communism. They narrowly escape after a border incident where Amir observes his father sticking up for a husband and wife when a Soviet inspection guard wants sexual favors as compensation for letting their caravan move on.
• Amir and his father end up living in San Francisco where Amir (Khalid Abdalla) graduates from community college and marries Soraya (Atossa Leoni).
• Amir and Soraya care for his ailing father as Amir writes a brilliant novel and best-selling novel. Eventually, though, the ghosts of his past emerge to haunt him.
• His father's associate, Rahim Kahn (Shaun Toub), left behind to care for the home and property, summons him to Pakistan where he tells him that his father had a secret. Turns out that Hassan was not Ali's son, but rather Amir's father's son making Hassan, actually, Amir's brother. And, shortly after Rahim had begged Hassan and his wife and child to return to take over the care of the home, the Taliban had arrived, shot and killed Hassan and his wife, and taken his son, Shorab (Ali Danish Bakhty Ari) to an orphanage. Rahim begs Amir to go and rescue the boy. He's arranged for a driver to help him.
• Amir and the driver arrive in Kabul to find that Sohrab has been taken from the orphanage by a Taliban leader who comes and takes children regularly in exchange for letting the orphanage operate smoothly. Amir and the driver go to a soccer game, witness a death-by-stoning of an adulterous couple, and identify the man responsible for taking Sohrab based on the information gathered from the man who ran the orphanage.
• They arrange a meeting with the man, but when they arrive, and Amir has to go it alone, the man is out on business. The leader of the sect, however, a man in a flowing white turban and gleaming sunglasses, introduces himself. He recognizes Amir instantly, but Amir does not recognize the now grown up Assef (Abdul Salam Yusoufzai)—now a tyrant leader of this Taliban sect. He now brings in the mentally and physically abused Sohrab whose been made up to look like and forced to dance like a concubine. The whole thing so sickens Amir he threatens to take Sohrab by force, which he eventually attempts and is aided when Sohrab slingshots Assef in the eye with a marble partially blinding him. They narrowly escape the compound with their lives.
• Somehow back in the USA, [there's no explanation in the film as there is in the book] as to how they get back to the USA given there are strict laws about bringing in children from other countries) Soraya and Amir word to integrate Sohrab who mostly doesn't speak to them, into their family. A day at the park flying kites as Young Amir and Young Hassan had done, finally brings Amir and his nephew to bond.
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