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- 1991
- PG-13
- 1 h 56 m
- 1991
- PG-13
- 1 h 56 m
Summary An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.
Directed By: Brian Gilbert
Written By: Betty Mahmoody, William Hoffer, David W. Rintels
- 1991
- PG-13
- 1 h 56 m
- 1991
- PG-13
- 1 h 56 m
Not Without My Daughter
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6.2
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Summary An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.
Directed By: Brian Gilbert
Written By: Betty Mahmoody, William Hoffer, David W. Rintels
Where to Watch
Top Cast
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
57
57% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
33% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
10% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
57
57% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
33% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
10% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Not Without My Daughter creeps up on you like an icy chill. Not since Midnight Express in 1978 has imprisonment in a foreign country been so alarmingly and intimately conveyed on film. [11 Jan 1991, p.69]
Field captures the sense of outrage to perfection, puffy-eyed, screaming and plotting escape. Appropriately enough, the film is strictly deglamorised; combined with the lack of sympathetic characters, it all adds up to difficult, compelling viewing as we're drawn into the deepening nightmare.
Field is at her best, downtrodden and determined as ever, and Sheila Rosenthal as Mahtob, Betty and Moody's little daughter, is adorable. [11 Jan 1991, p.E1]
Time to get out your flood pants and economy-size Kleenex. Sally Field has the weepies again. But unlike the hoked-up waterworks that turned Field's Steel Magnolias into rust, Not Without My Daughter has an iron-clad plus going for it - harrowing reality. [11 Jan 1991, p.1D]
What's surprising about Not Without My Daughter (which was adapted from a book that Betty Mahmoody wrote with William Hoffer) is how effective it is despite its obvious shortcomings. As a conventional thriller along the lines of, say, a Mission: Impossible episode, the movie actually manages to be borderline entertaining. [11 Jan 1991, p.9]
By enlisting jingoism and reducing an entire culture to caricature, Not Without My Daughter defeats any progressive point it may have intended to make.
It would all be worth getting mad over were the film not so plodding or so obvious in its tactics.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 User Ratings
6.2
60% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 User Ratings
6.2
60% Positive
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
20% Mixed
1 Rating
1 Rating
20% Negative
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Production Company
Pathé Entertainment,
Ufland
Release Date Jan 11, 1991
Duration 1 h 56 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline In 1984, Betty Mahmoody's husband took his wife and daughter to meet his family in Iran. He swore they would be safe. They would be happy. They would be free to leave. He lied.
Awards
Young Artist Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Golden Screen, Germany
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Razzie Awards
• 1 Nomination
