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Director: Marc Forster
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Running Time: 128 minutes
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Synopsis:

Amir and Hassan are social opposites yet best of friends until a debasing attack on Hassan tests the bond between the two Muslim boys. This occurs soon after they win a kite flying competition in Kabul. Amir shamefully breaks his connection with Hassan. Then the Russians attack the Afghan capitol, and Amir's father takes him to America.

Years later, Amir retuns to Afghanistan, drawn by another friendship. While there he learns the truth about Hassan and welcomes the opportunity to risk his life to rescue Hassan's orphaned son from the Taliban.
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The Kite Runner is a touching story about friends, family, and one man's powerful need to make amends for a wrong, even one that lies hidden in the past and on the opposite side of the world.

The movie illustrates well the tensions that can exist between rich and poor, father and son, native and immigrant, Muslim and American, and the good that can come from resolving those tensions.

It also reveals the wrenching contrast between Afghanistan prior to the war and the barren wasteland it became after the Russians occupied and then abandoned it to the Taliban.
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