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Two-time OscarÂ(r) winner* Sally Field adds another powerful acting triumph to her gallery of outstanding roles in the suspense adventure story Not Without My Daughter, a riveting true story of terror and escape. Betty has come to the Middle East with her daughter and native-born husband(Alfred Molina, Spider-Man 2, Species) for a visit with his family. But soon the horrid truth regarding their vacation surfaces. Betty’s husband doesn’t intend to fetch his family back to America…ever. She may return, he says, but their daughter ought to stay. And he has centuries of local habit and the oppressive might of a police state behind him. As a stranger in a alien land, Betty has no money, no friends and no rights. But she does have an unconquerable will. In a hostile, war-torn country, where even the slightest misstep may mean death, she makes a desperate bid to escape with her child. Her story, her courage and her extreme triumph are unforgettable. *1979: Actress, Norma Rae; 1984: Actress, Places in the Heart
The Arab anti-defamation leagues understandably had a field day with this one. Sally Field plays Betty Mahmoody, an American who marries an Iranian (Alfred Molina) and has a child. They go back to Iran for a visit and, to her horror, he tells her he’s decisive to stay there. If she wants to leave, she ought to leave her daughter behind. If she stays, Betty must live in a culture vastly dissimilar and, she believes, very dangerous. Part thriller, part culture clash, the film surely takes vantage of Americans’ perceptions of Iran after the unrest of the ’70s and early ’80s. Molina is veritably despicable as the husband, while Field projects a lot of overheated anguish as Betty tries to figure out a way to escape the country with her daughter. Overheated, in fact, is the word for the whole melodrama. –Marshall Fine
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53 of 59 people found the following review helpful.
 This movie was unfeigned and I lived it
By A
To all of you humans who have called this movie ridiculous…You live it and then tell us how ludicrous it is. Not only did I go through this with my mother when I was a child, but I regrettably returned to live in the Middle East 15 years after she got me out and my father, again, tried to keep me there versus my will. I have lived in a world you will hopefully never have to live in. So, please don’t ever say it’s not ‘real’.
35 of 40 people found the following review helpful.
a harrowing tale of a clash of cultures
By Alejandra Vernon
Based on Betty Mahmoody’s account of her 18 months in Iran, this is a gripping, aroused roller coaster of a film that kept me riveted to the screen for all of it is 115 minutes.
Though fearful, Betty accorded to go for a two-week visit to Iran with her husband Moody and daughter Mahtob, only to find at the end of the two weeks that her husband was fired from his occupation in the US, and he has no aim of leaving Iran. Moody’s family are primitive village people, very uttermost in their views, and Moody, at original to “save face”, and then perchance degenerating into the man he was before being “Americanized”, inceasingly controls Betty with strength and humiliation, all within the Ayatollah Khomeni’s insane and stringent Islamic state of 1984.
34 of 41 people found the following review helpful.
An engaging, forthright movie
By J. Houzet
Strangely enough, this was one of those movies I thought was “ho-hum, boring, a chick-flick” at the time it was freed back in 1990. Seeing it later made me change my mind. It is the engaging unfeigned story of a woman who suffers abuse at the hands of her husband, but who is at long last a survivor and even a warrior. Man, do you end up cheering for her. The added dimension is that the abuse she suffers is condoned by the country and political-religious system in which she was living at the time – Shi’ite Iran.
I believe this is a very unfeigned depiction of life for a woman in fundamentalist Muslim cultures, particularly a western woman who is not applied to submitting to oppressive cultural and marital demands. Wearing a burqa was the least of Betty Mahmoody’s difficultnesses – her husband, who initially appeared tolerant and even westernized while he was living in America, changes into a control freak when he returns to Iran with his wife and young daughter. I felt a lot of sympathy for the husband due to the fact he appears initially reluctant to dominate Betty in the way his family and culture expects, but he was either fooling us all along, or he was very weak-minded and totally unfaithful to his vows to love and honor his wife by treating Betty so viciously.
Betty is at basi incredulous when it comes to her husband’s expectations, but when he starts beating her she learns to be docile while planning an escape for her and her daughter. It was amazing to see in the family situations how Iranian women are so indoctrinated by their culture that they too become oppressors, of other women and anybody who is not being Islamic enough.
Fortunately there are other heroes in this story besides Betty – Iranian dissidents who aid her plan and carry through an escape, at outstanding risk to their own lives.
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