After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
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Khalid Abdalla
Amir
Homayoun Ershadi
Baba
Shaun Toub
Rahim Kahn
Atossa Leoni
Soraya
Saïd Taghmaoui
Farid
Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada
Young Hassan
Elham Ehsas
Young Assef
Mustafa Haidari
Party Worker
Zekeria Ebrahimi
Young Amir
Ali Danish Bakhty Ari
Sohrab
Director
Marc Forster
Screenplay
David Benioff
Tagline
"There is a way to be good again."
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$20,000,000
Revenue
$73,276,047
Production
Wonderland Films, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, Participant, Parkes+MacDonald Production, China Film Co-Production, Beijing Happy Pictures Cultural Communications Co., Kite Runner Holdings, Neal Street Productions, DreamWorks Pictures
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August 30, 2026
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 Spark Notes, though I honestly think Spark Notes does a better job. It spent no time developing the ch...
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