Not Without My Daughter

Name: Not Without My Daughter
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Duration: 1 h 56 min
Rating: 5.6
Cast: Sally Field, Alfred Molina, Sheila Rosenthal, Roshan Seth, Georges Corraface

1991

5.6

Title: Not Without My Daughter

Original Title: Not Without My Daughter

Year: 1991

Info

Country: USA
Length: 116 Minutes (1 hour 56 min)
Genre: Drama Thriller
Studios: Pathé

Release Dates

UK: June 21 1991
United States: January 11 1991

Vídeos eCartelera

Joseph Quinn y Ebon Moss-Bachrach profundizan en sus personajes y el futuro de 'Los 4 Fantásticos'

Plot

Betty Mahmoody (Sally Field) lives happily married with her husband, the iranian doctor Sayyed Bozorg alias "Moody" (Alfred Molina) and his daughter Mahtob (Sheila Rosenthal) in Michigan, United States. Everything changes when the family travels to Tehran to visit a couple weeks to relatives of "Moody" in the Iranian capital with the little girl Mahtob, who only has four years. However, what seemed a simple family trip to the roots of the parent culture becomes a trap for Betty and Mahtob, which will be held in the country and stigmatized by their Western origin. 'Not Without My Daughter' is a film of Brian Gilbert carried out in the early 90s.

Cast

Director:

Brian Gilbert Brian Gilbert

Betty Mahmoody

Moody

Mahtob

Houssein

Mohsen

Photos

Trivia

Moonlight

"Mahtob" in Persian means "moonlight".

The point of view of Seyyed Bozorg Mahmoody

Mahtob's father, Seyyed Bozorg Mahmoody, later told his view of the events in the documentary film 'Ilman tytärtäni' (2002), aka "Without My Daughter."

The escape

In the book, Betty Mahmoody and Mahtob escaped Iran thru the northern mountain regions in the dead of winter with severe ice and snow. The producers planned to film the escape scene in the Eilat Mountain in Southern Israel. However, there was no snow that winter and the escape scene was going to scrapped. Many protests arose because they felt the scene was essential. Sally Field even threatened to quit the project. The producers looked for other locations but either they were too expensive or unsafe for the actors and the crew. Finally, the scene was re written to have Betty Mahmoodey and Mahtob traveling thru the desert in searing heat.