Not Without My Daughter (6/12) Movie CLIP - I Won't Leave Her (1991) HD

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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
When Hamid (Sasson Gabai), a kind store owner, allows Betty (Sally Field) to use the phone, she calls the Swiss Embassy to plan her escape from Iran.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
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 American medical establishment and pining for contact with his family, Moody convinces her to join him for a two-week jaunt. The Islamic fundamentalism and strange customs of Iran bewilder and frighten Betty and her daughter, Mahtob (Sheila Rosenthal). But nothing prepares her for Moody's announcement that the family will be remaining in Tehran indefinitely. Despite beatings and more pervasive psychological control from her husband and his relatives, Betty makes it to the Swiss embassy (there is no American ambassador at the time). There, she learns that as the wife of an Iranian, she is now automatically considered a citizen and that she has absolutely no parental rights over Mahtob in this country. Betty then endures several years as a virtual prisoner, escaping only with the help of Westernized Iranian friends. Based on the book by the real-life Mahmoody and William Hoffer, Not Without My Daughter was coincidentally released during the long build-up to 1991's Gulf War.
CREDITS:
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Cast: Sasson Gabai, Sally Field
Director: Brian Gilbert
Producers: Harry J. Ufland, Mary Jane Ufland, Anthony Waye
Screenwriters: Betty Mahmoody, William Hoffer, David W. Rintels
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@DENAANN1000 5 жыл бұрын

This guy was heaven sent. not only would I pay him back I'd send him a fruit basket every month for the rest of my life.

@alvexok5523 5 жыл бұрын

That's a very nice, thoughtful comment, considering your name. Lol. No but really, I like your comment, I'm sure your username was just you being humorous.

@youtubecommenter37 4 жыл бұрын

I’d buy all his shirts

@govdid195g7 4 жыл бұрын

I hope she did send him some $ for risking his own Life & his family to help her..a complete stranger!

@dallasyap3064 4 жыл бұрын

@@alvexok5523 sometimes u can't judge a book by its cover

@alvexok5523 4 жыл бұрын

@@dallasyap3064, that's true

@Stevie66ful 6 жыл бұрын

He was one of the nicest men in Iran. God bless him and his family.

@punknhead23 4 жыл бұрын

In this movie.

@dallasyap3064 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@RenlinkMorales 4 жыл бұрын

He died, the family found out

@dynahvelvixin.8615 4 жыл бұрын

@@RenlinkMorales he died what happened?

@RenlinkMorales 4 жыл бұрын

@@dynahvelvixin.8615 idk i have to read the book and i forgot the real daughter name she had interview video talking about it

@Riddarjakob 4 жыл бұрын

God bless Hamid. He is the first one who helps Betty.

@jamesthong2508 3 жыл бұрын

Yep the first ally Betty has ever met.

@rrboost6151 2 жыл бұрын

In the movie but I. The book their were others that tried to help her before.

@Riddarjakob 2 жыл бұрын

@@rrboost6151 And who are they wo want to help her in the book version? Why did they fail?

@rrboost6151 2 жыл бұрын

@@Riddarjakob one was an Iranian lady who had lived in the US but had no contacts . Another was two American women were married to Iranians pilots who wanted to "kidnap" Betty and Mahtob and then figure a way to sneak them

@rrboost6151 2 жыл бұрын

@@Riddarjakob and the sneak then out. Betty would not go with them because they did have a plan. She mentioned that there were many nice people I Iran that tried to help her but these were the two cases were she went into detailes

@pamelabacker2420 3 жыл бұрын

Hamid is so kind to help Betty and her daughter.

@jawaherabueish8790 Жыл бұрын

Why did she leave her son though

@pamelabacker2420 Жыл бұрын

@@jawaherabueish8790 She never had a son; just a daughter.

@jawaherabueish8790 Жыл бұрын

In the movie it shows her taking care of a baby boy

@pamelabacker2420 Жыл бұрын

@@jawaherabueish8790 I did some research. She had two sons, from a previous marriage; who are much older than her daughter, by 9 and 13 years respectively. Perhaps her sons were already grown up, by the time Betty, Mahtob and Mahmoody moved to Iran. The baby boy probably was someone else's son.

@Sersha Жыл бұрын

@@pamelabacker2420 hum.. Have you seen the movie ? At this part, Betty and her husband lived at familys's couple. This couple had a son and Betty was sometimes taking care of him

@user-cf7pe3qg1c 6 жыл бұрын

Hamid was very western which is what Iran USED to be before the 1979 take over.

@kathconserv 5 жыл бұрын

C Liberty that’s right.

@alvexok5523 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, that's what Moody kept mentioning in the movie, how the country was getting so much more sophisticated before the revolution, and how they were building chemical plants and refineries, and how they were now all rotting in the desert because no one knew how to operate them

@suzanbeverlyhills2310 4 жыл бұрын

Cindy Liberty his my cousin

@user-wk2uf5yo7x 4 жыл бұрын

Stop believing that because someone is westernized it means that he is good

@thecreativemillenial 3 жыл бұрын

@@user-wk2uf5yo7x some are some aren't

@louisianian7599 8 жыл бұрын

Hamid is an example of most if not all Iranians I've ever known.

@iwilson6651 Жыл бұрын

Yup...same here, some of the kindest people out there

@jordanjoestar-turniptruck 10 ай бұрын

A strong people who have endured such a horrible regime.

@sexykitten0814 4 жыл бұрын

It’s worth noting that Betty said a heartfelt prayer with Mahtob asking the Lord to help them leave Iran, return safely home to America, to keep them always in His care, and to never let anything separate them. Hamid was the answer to that prayer.❤️

@dallasyap3064 4 жыл бұрын

Yes indeed

@dynahvelvixin.8615 3 жыл бұрын

Hamid and Hassain.

@tommym321 2 жыл бұрын

It’s worth noting that religious bullshit is what causes all these problems in the first time.

@dynahvelvixin.8615 2 жыл бұрын

@@tommym321 hamid and Hussain are true proper muslims.

@SweetJesusBale 2 жыл бұрын

Yep - thanks Jesus for bringing me back to the country that his xenophobic lol

@emilysgottalent4806 2 жыл бұрын

I remember seeing him the first time and I was like I don’t trust him, but towards the end, I wanted to wrap my arms around him and call him a hero 🦸‍♂️

@dallasyap3064 4 жыл бұрын

That man is a very kind person. If I managed to get back to US, I would invite him to help him settle there as well or send funds to help him if possible.

@rrboost6151 2 жыл бұрын

If I remember right he did get out. Iran Contra delayed it but he made it

@johnforster2375 4 жыл бұрын

Very soft spoken guy... got that glass of warm milk vibes goin w his voice

@lunaranger4921 4 жыл бұрын

She can get a divorce, but the man keeps the child :| And these people are so lost that they think it’s normal

@rachelkh1714 4 жыл бұрын

Luna Ranger she can ask for divorce but the court never let her to divorce until her husband say ok The laws in iran r totally against women

@gambler942 4 жыл бұрын

Technically if the wife divorce the husband in Iran and the husband says ok, then the husband will take all the wife possession (that also means her owned child). because woman have no right in Iran or better yet the woman in Iran are treated as possession not people, that why Betty cannot divorce her husband in iran she needed to divorce him in a state where woman are treated as equal

@dallasyap3064 4 жыл бұрын

Women in Iran is being oppressed. They are not being treated as people, they are treated as slaves and dogs. That's why not live in Iran.

@melaniemills4505 2 жыл бұрын

Listened to a blog where women who lived in the United States after growing up in the Middle East said the biggest adjustment was realizing that they could go anywhere they wanted without needing a male relative to escort them. One woman said kept looking around to see if her neighbors were watching her whenever she went out for a walk. That had to be a hell of a culture shock to these ladies. 🤔

@user-wk2uf5yo7x 2 жыл бұрын

Where were they from?

@melaniemills4505 2 жыл бұрын

@@user-wk2uf5yo7x ...not sure. 🤔

@wake_up_samurai77 Жыл бұрын

they dont want women to go alone anywhere cuz if there is a rapist or robber they cant fight back

@purplemist7 5 ай бұрын

@@wake_up_samurai77Or maybe it's because they want to control women? Yeah, I think that's it, which would also explain why women don't have many rights there and why to this day, they need their husbands' consent to leave the country.

@thecreativemillenial 4 жыл бұрын

People claim that this movie demonized all Iranians as a whole but it didn't. A lot of Iranians, like this guy, really cool.

@thelords3394 5 жыл бұрын

God bless Hamid.

@veronicamamiful Жыл бұрын

What an Angel. Such kindness and caring.

@sexykitten0814 4 жыл бұрын

I never understood why Betty was shocked when Nicole told her on the phone that Betty could leave the country if she divorced Moody, but that she could not take Mahtob with her, because Moody would automatically get custody of her. Nicole clearly explained this to Betty in an earlier scene at their first meeting at the embassy. Nicole told her that women had no rights to the children in Iran, and they immediately went to the father in a divorce. I wonder if this was a continuity error.

@myownself25 3 жыл бұрын

I think she was too shocked to listen and that her high hopes were broken when she was told she cannot stay at the embassy and that she was automatically an Iranian citizen.

@einsteinboricua 3 жыл бұрын

I don’t think she was shocked. Nicole likely went into further details of divorce proceedings. In the earlier scene, she just says “they go to the man in a divorce”. Maybe she held out hope that she could work out a compromise and have shared custody (though the shock of being told the embassy couldn’t help was likely bigger). On the call, Nicole may be telling her that she has to explicitly give up Mahtob as part of the divorce agreement for it to be official or that once the papers are signed, she can be dropped at the airport while Mahtob stays behind...something that truly dashes her hopes of having Mahtob after a divorce.

@bripink1 3 жыл бұрын

The fact that he said my little small town Amarillo TX makes me love this movie even more

@mshafer1021 2 жыл бұрын

I ate at a Golden Corral in Amarillo while traveling from Phoenix to Tulsa

@cherylhayes1001 4 жыл бұрын

I met her and her daughter. She has remarried but has to live in a fortress close to we’re I live. Lovely lady and beautiful daughter

@back2the80s 3 жыл бұрын

Cheryl Hayes why in a fortress? The real Moody died years ago.

@suzannealcock4681 4 жыл бұрын

Hamid is so kind. Iranian are not bad like some people make them out to be. In fact my sister and I used to frequent a fast food restaurant where the whole staff was Iranian males except for 1 white girl. One guy Will really liked my sister. Another guy who must have some American blood as he had blue eyes Abraham liked me then one day we were in the drive through and a new girl came to the the window and told me "Mo ( short for Mohhammed.) wants your phone number." We need more Iranian men like Hamid.

@dallasyap3064 4 жыл бұрын

True indeed. But make sure, that u or your sister won't end up like this woman, have to go with husband to Iran and trap there. Beware!

@evelynverdejo6926 Жыл бұрын

❤

@jessicamarie8299 7 ай бұрын

Ok 😂😂😂😂

@kelleyannethomas5372 3 жыл бұрын

That scene really makes me want to cry! It made me wish that I could just jump into that scene & give that man a big hug! (Why was his son a "Martyr for the war" if he attended the University of Texas? Why didn't he just stay in Texas? 🤔 I didn't see the movie, so I don't know).

@Kaboomboo 3 жыл бұрын

He probably returned home after he completed his studies.

@evelynverdejo6926 Жыл бұрын

He probably returned home before the revolution

@gracecheri997 5 жыл бұрын

I have met lovely Iranian people who live here love the freedom we have.

@user-wk2uf5yo7x 5 жыл бұрын

@@rileysmith9843 getting all high and mighty I see?

@rileysmith9843 4 жыл бұрын

Not really my intentions to get all high and mighty, even though I’m in a military family.

@rileysmith9843 2 жыл бұрын

The man in this scene shows that not all Iranians are like what they’re portrayed to be. I mean, I live in a city in Michigan right outside Detroit where many people are of Middle Eastern descent, but I don’t go hating on them for their descent, like people here stateside want to do. There are people here stateside that demonize them simply for their descent or where they came from, thinking they’re all terrorists.

@deborahminter6231 4 жыл бұрын

He felt bad for her.

@RenlinkMorales 4 жыл бұрын

He knew she was American and was threw it.

@gracecheri997 5 жыл бұрын

I hope they can be free to express themselves one day🌻

@CeridwenLynne 4 жыл бұрын

I knew an Iranian kid back in high school. He was very nice and westernized just like the man in the shop.

@rileysmith9843 3 жыл бұрын

I knew quite a few Muslim and Islamic students. Some of them were of Iranian descent. They were nice people, and stood up to verbal and physical attacks as the 2016 election was on the horizon.

@ruebenvega6410 3 жыл бұрын

He really risked his life and business to let someone call the states from his business

@orlandobabe Жыл бұрын

I hope nothing terrible happened to him for what he did for Betty. I’m sure he would’ve gotten in some form of trouble for helping her

@tonysalvageyard Жыл бұрын

I have read the book by Betty Mahmoody from which the movie was taken and I can tell you this: he was even more brave and kind than his movie counterpart. At some point after meeting him, Betty suffered from a brutal beating at the hands of Moody (one of the many, actually); the next time she went into Hamid's store to phone Hamid was able to notice the effects of the beating on her face and asked her what happened, sounding genuinely worried. Betty said that in that particular moment she was so desperate for some kindness that she had a breakdown and told Hamid about Moody's mistreatment, despite the obvious dangers of placing her trust in a man that she barely knew; Hamid was shocked to learn about Moody's behavior and even declared that he was a lunatic. After that, he asked with decision to Betty to give him her address suggesting that he could organize some people to go at Moody's home and give him a taste of his own medicine. Betty said that she was very tempted to accept Hamid's offer but eventually they both realized that such an act would have revealed to Moddy that Betty had some "allies" and, since secrecy was her only hope to escape successfully from Iran, they dropped the idea. After successfully returning to America Betty wrote to Hamid thanking him for his help and he replied back. On the letter he said that two months before the police shut down his store, accusing him of selling clothing with Occidental characters printed on. He added that things were getting worst each day but he also said that Betty's letter brought to him true joy for the first time in many days. He also added that he shared Betty's letter and story with his wife, and even in their hardship, both of them were happy to hear that Betty was successful in her escape.

@orlandobabe Жыл бұрын

@@tonysalvageyard that is wonderful, I am grateful to hear he would’ve avenge Moody for Betty. Lord knows she was alone except with her daughter.

@doctorposting Жыл бұрын

@@tonysalvageyard omg what happened to him i wonder 😞😞😞

@wanderlovesus7777 2 жыл бұрын

I notice that hamid looked uncomfortable when he greeted betty, not because he didn’t want to talk to her, it’s obvious he didn’t want others who knows betty’s husband to rat them out, especially when he was offering her to use his phone anytime she needed, he knows how nosey his own people are, and he had that face expression like, “Let’s continue to talk about this later”..

@TalkTopicscity29 Жыл бұрын

An angle sent for Betty

@Choices2aa 4 жыл бұрын

Nobody understood what it was like for Betty and I am from India and I was born there and I am being gangstalked and hated and they have me down on social media as a terrorist and people hate me so much and they act like monsters around me and they scare me too. I am praying this stops the gangstalking.

@dallasyap3064 4 жыл бұрын

Try going to the police. For one thing I know (not sure), is that women are also like sort of oppressed in India but not as worse as those in Iran.

@dallasyap3064 4 жыл бұрын

In u want, then get out of the country. Go to America.

@santosme2398 2 жыл бұрын

He was so nice to her an angel sent from God to help her and her daughter out. God heard their prayers. Unfortunately some people take their religion to the extreme, ans in some cultures women have no saying.

@jasonburdette6921 Жыл бұрын

This guy owned this store was gentleman

@redlikewineagain697 2 жыл бұрын

That was the cutest baby! I could just squeeze him ♥♥♥

@Molego2011 4 жыл бұрын

I would love to visit Iran 🇮🇷... I don’t like their government, but I am sure their people and culture is amazing

@ipukeglitter435 4 жыл бұрын

Uh yeah no it's not a very safe place to visit. Never go alone and women should never alone. Idk your gender and I don't care. But it's just not a safe place to visit. Especially for women and they should never go there alone.

@sofiarueda.8657 4 жыл бұрын

I don’t think you’d like to go right now

@ulefab7503 4 жыл бұрын

let's put a smile on that face Not at all ! Iran is a very safe place especially for women. People are respectful and they wouldn’t attack a woman or man even after dark

@asyabb9497 3 жыл бұрын

I've seen videos of women being whipped and stoned on the streets of Iran. It's definitely not safe. I think you should not go to a country governed by sharia.

@mshafer1021 2 жыл бұрын

@@ipukeglitter435 that is objectively, provably NOT true! Iran is safer than the US by a long shot. It’s an incredibly civilized country with a huge percentage of its youth not even following Islam. And even if they did, Shia Islam isn’t nearly as extreme as Sunni Islam…no beheadings, no suicide bombings, no “jihad,” nothing.

@whatsgoingon07 Жыл бұрын

Imagining having a child watch him grow up graduate from Texas A&M only to die a martyr

@Channel-ew9dr Ай бұрын

God bless you, sir. You did good.

@odettetenney409 Жыл бұрын

I have seen this movie and it really opens up your eyes... I would like 2 see it again from the very beginning 2 the end.

@RoxanneSharbono-mb8ol Ай бұрын

He escaped❤

@evelynverdejo6926 Жыл бұрын

All I can say is that these days in Iran it’s hard to find men over there like Hamid 😢

@liatkan Ай бұрын

funny thing is - this actor is israeli. sason gabay. a great artist. to bad we cant all just get along in real life.

@selah7779 2 жыл бұрын

I love this movie... too bad it was only a clip.

@gunnyakdo1653 3 жыл бұрын

he also helped rambo

@AmusedChild 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if anyone ever followed up with him or if anyone from America sent him money for all he did.

@dianacarolina7748 2 жыл бұрын

La quiero completa Y en español Por favor Gracias Ok

@saraluyo4670 4 жыл бұрын

Por favor ponga la película completa en castellano

@purplemist7 5 ай бұрын

Espanol?

@emrakultheaeonstorn7430 5 жыл бұрын

Amarillo Texas!

@alvexok5523 5 жыл бұрын

Yep, he wasn't just an Iranian who visited the world melting pot of NY, he got a taste of middle America (the real down home America, what some people say)

@angelicamacias4586 4 жыл бұрын

@bettyflores8662 4 жыл бұрын

En español somos latinas gracias

@cesarhernandez7064 4 жыл бұрын

Their are only a minority Muslim who are kind than the rest of them those who have no kindness and hatred.

@PajafromPrague Ай бұрын

Hamid and Houssein great guys . If only all iranians were like them in that time . Fortunatelly she coudnt be hold like this anymore .

@amverroblox6039 4 жыл бұрын

There's another lifetime movie just liked this. I don't remember the name. I wish I remember the name

@back2the80s Жыл бұрын

Cathy mahone story similar story

@1256sola 6 ай бұрын

This is a lesson for all crazy occidental women that fell in love with crazy people like them with such different culture

@winstonmoore3062 5 жыл бұрын

MEN helped her get out

@JM-pj1fi 5 жыл бұрын

Yes they did.

@alicelopez130 5 жыл бұрын

Well it’s not like women had much power...

@winstonmoore3062 5 жыл бұрын

I know

@alvexok5523 5 жыл бұрын

One of the helpers was a woman

@TheFunnygym 4 жыл бұрын

Gender doesn't matter. Any man or woman who helps someone in such need is a hero.

@AlexS-oj8qf 4 жыл бұрын

This is why we curtail Clergy's power in Europe back in the Reformation Era.

@tek5692 3 жыл бұрын

But did you... really?

@angelatwist8085 4 жыл бұрын

I just thank God i was born in kenya...

@user-of4nv8oq3u 2 жыл бұрын

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

@chase2182 2 жыл бұрын

Always remember that Jesus will get us out of any situation that we're in.

@wake_up_samurai77 Жыл бұрын

Jesus is not reel

@user-st5so3rx3g 3 ай бұрын

@@wake_up_samurai77 he is and history proves

@user-st5so3rx3g 3 ай бұрын

Amen

@havenbanks5778 Ай бұрын

@@wake_up_samurai77 He is *real*......learn to spell before giving out advice

@TheAmeythakur 2 жыл бұрын

I want to watch this movie. Where I can watch?

@learntospellpeople 2 жыл бұрын

@@surenpiruzi1954 Why are you posting this again? What's your agenda?

@surenpiruzi1954 2 жыл бұрын

@@learntospellpeople Are you a “private” detective”? What is your “agenda”?

@learntospellpeople 2 жыл бұрын

@@surenpiruzi1954 You keep posting comments seemingly to advertise this book. It strikes one as strange and begs the question why you keep doing that. I don't have one then again I m not posting multiple times to promote some book with a bunch of unsubstantiated claims. I really have no interest on a back and forth re this so I'm muting this thread.

@surenpiruzi1954 2 жыл бұрын

@@learntospellpeople Congratulations! A fundamentalist Sunni Muslim at the end of this page is almost of the same opinion as you. Just open your eyes and look around you! The most non-religious, secular, and democracy-loving people from the Middle East, who live in the West, are Iranians, and Betty tries to belittle these people.

@drewbus4498 Жыл бұрын

In real life they killed this man may he REST IN PARADISE!🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

@rubyoise796 4 жыл бұрын

1:53

@perfectsplit5515 9 жыл бұрын

I would call Hamid a "watered down" Muslim. He was (probably) Muslim on paper, but acted like a Christian and deviated away from true Islam. He followed the Christian tenet of "Love thy neighbor" and acted as a good samaritan towards Betty. He is loosely analogous to the Iranian housekeeper in "Argo". She protected the fugitive American Embassy workers from the Iranian authorities.

@perfectsplit5515 7 жыл бұрын

Farshadkhodayar Khodayar I will delete dishonest posts coming from lying Islamic Propagandists who are upholding the Islamic tenet of protecting the image of Islam, regardless of what the truth is.

@JayReaction530 5 жыл бұрын

better then Xerxes in 300

@suzanbeverlyhills2310 4 жыл бұрын

perfectsplit Hamid is my cousin

@valentincavazzos4420 4 жыл бұрын

Perfect split he is a real Muslim it's not the religion whether your Muslim or not it's your upbringing not religion okay

@jessicamarie8299 7 ай бұрын

@@suzanbeverlyhills2310Is it true that your cousin went to prison for helping Betty?

@beverlythacker4426 5 жыл бұрын

Is the baby her's? I am somewhat confused

@govdid195g7 4 жыл бұрын

Betty's daughter

@victoriaalexandra1958 3 жыл бұрын

No, it was her husband’s nephew.

@gerberjoanne266 2 жыл бұрын

It must have been another baby from the extended family. Her daughter in the movie was older. She seemed to be around 4 or 5.

@jc7453 10 ай бұрын

I do not have much respect for Betty. She had 2 other children from a previous marriage. Left in the US. I mean, if you marry again, your new husband should include all of his new family. Her other children suffered a lot from this story, from her absence, but no-one even mentions them!!

@purplemist7 5 ай бұрын

From what I understand, her other two children were significantly older than Mahtob, so in all likelihood they were both fully grown and living on their own during the events of this film. This would explain why we don't see them.

@jc7453 5 ай бұрын

@@purplemist7 I have read different versions. Joe and John (her two sons) were 9 and 13 when Mahtob was born (or maybe when Betty left for Iran, I am not sure). Either way, they were young. They were left with Betty's parents when she traveled with Mahtob. Another 'source' says they were her nephews, but I have only seen that once. Betty herself said, in an interview, that her sons were so traumatized by what happened that they refused to attend an event when her book was published. They could not cope with reliving it over and over. When the film was made, apparently the producers wanted to 'concentrate' on the subject at hand, meaning only Betty, Mahtob and Moody. As a mother of several children I am not sure I would have agreed to have my other children wiped out of this story because they were greatly affected by it in their own way. Anyway, none of us know the whole story, but it would be good to get some insight as to what happened to those two little boys.

@thespunkavenue3471 7 ай бұрын

Finny enough, she got help from Iranians not even the American she had hope in. In our tribukations , help can be near.

@purplemist7 5 ай бұрын

She obviously also got help from Americans, such as her mom, those in the American embassy, etc.

@shubhanshujain752 Жыл бұрын

Meanwhile to justify their fanatic revolution they also went on war.

@arkay238 Жыл бұрын

Mahtob looks so young in this scene

@purplemist7 5 ай бұрын

That wasn't Mahtob, that was the baby of the woman whose husband's house Betty and her family were living in.

@patriciarouse2801 2 жыл бұрын

100 years since the vote. Any conscious person does not misunderstand: misogynism is stunting to human development. Heave off the garbage bag , and do not let ages and ages of enslave abused mutual abused yesteryear hold you yourself, your children hostage.

@ScarlettM 8 жыл бұрын

One option for her is to divorce her husband, leave Iran and work on getting her daughter out from home. She could have sold her property and found some mercenaries to go to Iran and rescue her daughter. Probably less risky than what she did.

@Menowa22 7 жыл бұрын

No mother would leave her daughter alone in a situation like this.

@ScarlettM 7 жыл бұрын

A mother can do anything, if it means freedom and future for her child, even leaving said child temporary.

@Menowa22 7 жыл бұрын

Again: no mother would leave her daughter alone in a situation like this.

@Menowa22 7 жыл бұрын

I dont know whether you have watched the movie yet, but in it the women from the embassy explains: if you have a iranian husband, in the case of a divorce you have no right on the custody. So.

@ScarlettM 7 жыл бұрын

I'm not talking about custody. Read my original comment, then you'll understand why leavening the daughter temporary could have been a realistic way to save her. And yes, mother can leave daughter if necessary. I guarantee it.

@chek887 3 жыл бұрын

I watched this movie back in Iran around 21 years ago when the real father was there inside Cinema watching this movie with students in the university and telling them the lies and errors that are in each scene. From what I can still remember he was kind and longing to see his daughter again. Well, that's Hollywood job to direct people's minds and perceptions to what they want. We saw this trend before in movies like 300 or Argo in which they wrote history and politics again.