Not without my daughter [videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; Pathé Entertainment presents an Ufland production ; screenplay by Pat Riddle ; produced by Harry J. Ufland and Mary Jane Ufland ; directed by Brian Gilbert.
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FilmPublisher number: 1002576 | MGMLanguage: English, French, Spanish Original language: English Publication details: Culver City, Calif. : MGM Home Entertainment, 2001.Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 1 hr., 56 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0792851080
- 9780792851080
- Not without my daughter (Motion picture).
- Director of photography, Peter Hannan ; music, Jerry Goldsmith ; editor, Terry Rawlings ; production designer, Anthony Pratt ; costume designer, Nic Ede ; art direction, Avishay Avivi, Desmond Crowe ; set decoration, Anat Avivi.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In this docudrama based on true events, a mid-'80s Michigan housewife finds her life turned upside down when a vacation to Tehran with her Iranian husband turns into virtual imprisonment for her and her young daughter. Betty Mahmoody (Sally Field) is reluctant to visit the wartorn homeland of her doctor husband, Moody (Alfred Molina). But, depressed about the racism of the American medical establishment and pining for contact with his family, Moody convinces her to join him for a two-week jaunt. The Islamic fundamentalism and strange customs of Iran bewilder and frighten Betty and her daughter, Mahtob (Sheila Rosenthal). But nothing prepares her for Moody's announcement that the family will be remaining in Tehran indefinitely. Despite beatings and more pervasive psychological control from her husband and his relatives, Betty makes it to the Swiss embassy (there is no American ambassador at the time). There, she learns that as the wife of an Iranian, she is now automatically considered a citizen and that she has absolutely no parental rights over Mahtob in this country. Betty then endures several years as a virtual prisoner, escaping only with the help of Westernized Iranian friends. Based on the book by the real-life Mahmoody and William Hoffer, Not Without My Daughter was coincidentally released during the long build-up to 1991's Gulf War. ~ Brian J. Dillard, Rovi
Based on the book by Betty Mahmoody and William Hoffer.
DVD release of the 1990 motion picture.
Special features include: "Making of" featurette; original theatrical trailer.
Director of photography, Peter Hannan ; music, Jerry Goldsmith ; editor, Terry Rawlings ; production designer, Anthony Pratt ; costume designer, Nic Ede ; art direction, Avishay Avivi, Desmond Crowe ; set decoration, Anat Avivi.
Sally Field, Alfred Molina, Sheila Rosenthal, Roshan Seth, Sarah Badel, Mony Rey, Georges Corraface.
American Betty Mahmoody goes with her daughter and her Iranian-born husband to his native Iran for a vacation. Soon Betty discovers her husband doesn't intend to ever return to America. He will let her go, but her daughter must stay. As a stranger in a foreign police state, Betty has no money, no friends, no rights, and makes a desperate, heroic bid to escape with her child.
MPAA rating: PG-13.
DVD, region 1; NTSC; Dolby Digital stereo surround or mono; 16:9 widescreen presentation (aspect ratio 1.85:1).
Dialogue in English with optional soundtracks in French and Spanish and optional subtitles in French and Spanish; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.