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Overview

User Rating:
7.8/10   346 votes
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Director:
Cyrus Nowrasteh
Writers (WGA):
Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh (screenplay) &
Cyrus Nowrasteh (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
26 June 2009 (USA) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama more
Plot:
A drama set in 1986 Iran and centered on a man, Sahebjam (Caviezel), whose car breaks down in a remote... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win more
NewsDesk:
(8 articles)
tMF Indie Spotlight: The Stoning of Soraya M.
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tMF Indie Spotlight: The Stoning of Soraya M.
 (From The Movie Fanatic. 8 July 2009, 8:42 AM, PDT)

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Cast

  (Credited cast)
Shohreh Aghdashloo ... Zahra

Mozhan Marnò ... Soraya M.

James Caviezel ... Freidoune

Navid Negahban ... Ali
Ali Pourtash ... Mullah

David Diaan ... Ebrahim
Parviz Sayyad ... Hashem

Vida Ghahremani ... Bita

Vachik Mangassarian ... Soraya's Father
rest of cast listed alphabetically:

Maggie Parto ... Vo

Prasanna Puwanarajah ... Revolutionary Guard

Bita Sheibani ... Leila
Yousef Shweihat ... Ringmaster
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for a disturbing sequence of cruel and brutal violence, and brief strong language.
Runtime:
USA:116 min
Country:
USA
Language:
Persian | English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
USA:R
Company:
Fallen Films more

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Zahra: A Sheikh? More like a holy whore. more

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7 out of 9 people found the following comment useful:-
Heart wrenching gut turning eye opening, 22 June 2009
10/10
Author: bobby-derringer from United States

AMAZING to drive thru traffic being stopped at Wilshire and Sepulveda (where there were over a thousand people dressed in green waving red, white and green Iranian flags on the corner) over to the premiere of this devastatingly powerful film...and then to leave Westwood later that night as see the street corners still crowded with enthusiastic supporters at 11 PM.

The post-film discussion with LAFF guest artist Khaled Hosseini (author of The Kite Runner), Iranian writer and scholar Reza Aslan, the film's director Cyrus Nowrasteh and the star of the film Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Sand and Fog) was PHENOMENAL. Check out: in The Wrap -- http://www.thewrap.com/ind-column/tk-stoning-soraya-m_3794

Kudos to the cast that had the courage to make this movie. And the producers (or whomever) who had the foresight. Talk about timing.

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