Growing up in Kabul, Amir and Hassan are inseparable friends. After spending years in California, adult Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
March 20, 1948, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
1963, Tehran, Iran
19 December 1975, Loring AFB, Maine, USA
30 December 1980, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
April 28, 2011
A remarkable story with tremendous human interest, about people we think we've figured out, but about whom we actually know next to nothing.
December 28, 2007
The film's belief in the power of redemption and its subtle assertion of the need for moral courage in personal (or political) conflict, is never allowed to get in the way of its boldly told, intelligent, informed and affecting story.
December 21, 2007
A respectful adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's 2003 novel.
January 29, 2008
Hosseini's over-done melodrama that doesn't so much open our eyes to Afghanistan as reinforce everything negative we've already suspected.
December 21, 2007
The Kite Runner is earnest and sentimental and formulaic and obvious. Watching it, I could understand the fuss over Khaled Hosseini's bestselling novel, but the film didn't make me want to read it.
May 06, 2008
Forster na synehizei na psahnei ti Hora toy Pote stin paramythenia Kampoyl toy protoy meroys, prin perasei sto deytero kommati tis istorias, opoy i prospatheia toy Afganoy metanasti na brei thesi sto Neo Kosmo kai bima na pei tis istories toy, ginetai syn
April 22, 2008
Es un poco inevitable sentir que la película transcurre casi como un trámite, sin permitirle al espectador una aproximación mucho más sensible a la historia.
September 02, 2008
Entirely too epic for its own good.
March 13, 2009
...a good but not classic movie of a good but not classic novel.
January 03, 2008
The Kite Runner is dramatically and visually sumptuous
December 21, 2007
If The Kite Runner flies only to flutter and fall a bit, at least it flies for a while.
