Review of Not Without My Daughter (1991) by Lauralybeautiful C — 11 Jun 2007

A co-worker had told me about this after she saw me reading a book called "Out of Iran" by Sousan Azadi. The two are drastically different, this being an American who goes with her husband to Iran, then can't get home, and the book I was reading was about an Iranian woman who flees to the US with her son because their lives are in danger.

Anyway, I have to say that this was unfortunately boring, especially given my high hopes for it. I regret to say I didn't watch the entire thing exactly for that reason... I was tired, and I wasnt interested enough to miss out on an extra hours sleep. (Hey, I have a month old son--my priorities are rearranged now!).

I also didn't like how Sally Field calls Iran primitive--was there actually a reason for that other than to get Americans puffed up with patriotism? To say something is different, foreign, strange, that is one thing, but to call it primitive... how can you expect tolerance when you can't tolerate someone else?

Anyway, the Flisxter synopsis sums this up nicely when it calls it a melodrama. I'm not surprised, then, to see the ratio of female flixterites liked this more (not much, but still) than the males on here.