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Directed by
Cyrus Nowrasteh
Screenplay by Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh & Cyrus Nowrasteh
Based on the Book by Freidoune Sahebjam
Cast: James Caviezel, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Navid Negahban, Mozhan Marno
Rated R for a disturbing sequence of cruel and brutal violence, and brief strong language.
Cyrus Nowrasteh
Screenplay by Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh & Cyrus Nowrasteh
Based on the Book by Freidoune Sahebjam
Cast: James Caviezel, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Navid Negahban, Mozhan Marno
Rated R for a disturbing sequence of cruel and brutal violence, and brief strong language.
Opened 7-17-09
While traveling through Iran in 1986 a journalist's car breaks down near a small village and he learns what happened there yesterday. A woman insists that he listen to her and record what she is saying. After he hears her story he almost doesn't make it out of the village. What he recorded is story of Soraya a woman who was accused of adultery by her husband. If convicted the crime carries the penalty of death by stoning. But there is more to the story. It seems her husband wanted a divorce so he could marry someone else, while not happy Soraya knew she would not be able to support herself and her two daughters - he husband would take their two boys with him. When she refuses he conspires with the local Mullah to frame his wife for adultery. The story is tragic but it is predictable from the opening frame it is obviously heading toward the title. This is a story of deceit, betrayal, fear and greed set within an oppressive legal system dominated by a strict adherence to religion. The actual stoning is needlessly gratuitously violent and bloody, it could have been handled so much better. The entire film is heavy handed but it still gets its point across. The cast is very good.
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© 2009 Roadside Attractions.
All rights reserved.
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© 2009 Roadside Attractions. All rights reserved.
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