The Kite Runner

After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.

Cast

Khalid Abdalla

as Amir

Homayoun Ershadi

as Baba

Shaun Toub

as Rahim Kahn

Atossa Leoni

as Soraya

Saïd Taghmaoui

as Farid

Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada

as Young Hassan

Elham Ehsas

as Young Assef

Mustafa Haidari

as Party Worker

Zekeria Ebrahimi

as Young Amir

Ali Danish Bakhty Ari

as Sohrab

Reviews

honeybee <3

For someone like me who has trouble visualizing what I read, this was helpful for me to imagine the book's setting. Other than that, there's not really much there. The movie took all the major plot points and put them one after the other, so I suppose it could be a more interesting alternative to Sp...

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