A Mighty Heart Release Date: June 22, 2007 Studio: Paramount Vantage Director: Michael Winterbottom
Screenwriter: John Orloff Starring: Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, Archie Panjabi, Will Patton, Irfan Khan, Sajid Hasan, Aly Khan, Denis O'Hare Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: R (for horror violence, some sexual content and language) Official Website: AMightyHeart.com
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Plot Summary: On January 23, 2002, Mariane Pearl's world changed forever. Her husband Daniel, South Asia bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, was researching a story on shoe bomber Richard Reid. The story drew them to Karachi where a go-between had promised access to an elusive source. As Danny left for the meeting, he told Mariane he might be late for dinner. He never returned.
In the face of death, Danny's spirit of defiance and his unflinching belief in the power of journalism led Mariane to write about his disappearance, the intense effort to find him and his eventual murder in her memoir "A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl." Six months pregnant when the ordeal began, she was carrying a son that Danny hoped to name Adam. She wrote the book to introduce Adam to the father he would never meet. Transcending religion, race and nationality, Mariane's courageous desire to rise above the bitterness and hatred that continues to plague this post 9/11 world, serves as the purest expression of the joy of life she and Danny shared.— More here
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4 1/2 Stars
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
Her total immersion in the role keeps the film from getting lost in the rush of details. Even after Daniel’s death and subsequent beheading, Mariane holds Daniel’s spirit close. Jolie sees to it that the humane and haunting A Mighty Heart honors that spirit.
Grade B-
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly
The twisting of narrative perspective that pushes the missing man's wife so insistently into the foreground makes A Mighty Heart a mighty challenge.
Facts, figures and beating heart intact
Justin Chang
Variety
Adapting Mariane Pearl's harrowing memoir, director Winterbottom, who previously ventured into Mideast politics with "In This World" and "The Road to Guantanamo," proves to be just the man for the task.
A film of such high seriousness, it's reason enough to rejoice.
Erica Abeel
Film Journal International
The prolific Michael Winterbottom continues in the vein of wrenching docudrama that he has previously mined in The Road to Guantanamo and In This World. Heart, however, rachets up the poignancy; closely hugging the memoir by Mariane Pearl, the story carries a high recognition factor.
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