Mariane Pearl embarks on a frantic search to locate her journalist husband, Daniel, when he goes missing in Pakistan.
Director:
Michael Winterbottom
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| Dan Futterman | ... | Danny | |
| Angelina Jolie | ... | Mariane | |
| Archie Panjabi | ... | Asra | |
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Mohammed Afzal | ... | Shabbir |
| Mushtaq Khan | ... | Danny's Taxi Driver (as Mushtaq Ahmed) | |
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Daud Khan | ... | Masud the Fixer |
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Telal Saeed | ... | Kaleem Yusuf |
| Arif Khan | ... | Mariane's Taxi Driver | |
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Tipu Taheer | ... | Human Rights Director |
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Amit Dhawan | ... | Technical Supervisor |
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Saira Nasir Khan | ... | Nasrin |
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Aliya Khan | ... | Kashva |
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Sarah Mone | ... | Female Guest |
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Bushra Parwani | ... | Female Guest |
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Zafar Karachiwala | ... | Male Guest |
On January 23, 2002, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is to fly from Karachi to Dubai with his pregnant wife, Mariane, also a reporter. On the day before, with great care, he has arranged an interview in a café with an Islamic fundamentalist cleric. When Danny doesn't return, Mariane initiates a search. Pakistani police, American embassy personnel, and the FBI examine witnesses, phone records, e-mails, and hard drives. Who has him? Where is he? There's also the why: because of U.S. abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo, because of a history of Journal cooperation with the CIA, because Pearl is a Jew? Through it all, Mariane is clearheaded, direct, and determined. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
MIGHTY HEART is an important film with a tremendous performance from Angelina Jolie and a superb cast that joins her on screen in a story that captures the fear of terrorism which we live with today. From the first frame to the final scene, the power of the camera which moves across the streets of Karachi and into the homes of its citizens, creates a pulse that moves the film forward with both excitement, dread and fear. Fear for not only Daniel Pearl's life, but for many victims of the destructive nature of terrorism the world over.
The film is intelligent, suspenseful, and captures the world of technology which we live in today-cell phones, IP addresses, computers and laptops and the internet-which connects us to both good and evil. There is an anti-American underlying theme in the film and through what America has done in both Afghanistan and Iraq, the audience can fathom the hatred felt for America in many parts of the world. Thus, MIGHTY HEART is a film which delivers both a tragic story, but also one for the United States of America as it continues the violent war in Iraq.