Summary:
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... Full Summary >>

Cast:
Sally Field - (Betty Mahmoody)
Alfred Molina - (Moody)
Sheila Rosenthal - (Mahtob)
Roshan Seth - (Houssein)
Sarah Badel - (Nicole)
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Review:
This deeply xenophobic film hews closely to the movie-of-the-week formula, allowing talented to but erratic actress Sally Field to succumb to every predictable pathos as her character fights for the right to leave the country to which she and her daughter have been virtually kidnapped. Regardless of the actual facts in the real-life case of Be... Continue >>

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