The Kit Runner Blue Ray DVD

TITLE:

The Kite Runner [Blu-ray] (2007)

DIRECTOR:

Marc Forster

PRODUCERS:

Bruce Toll, E. Bennett Walsh, Jeff Skoll, Kwame Parker, and Laurie MacDonald

ACTORS: 

Khalid Abdalla, Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada, Atossa Leoni, Shaum Toub, Sayed Jafar Masihullah Gharibzada

WRITERS

David Benioff and Khaled Hosseini

RELEASING COMPANY:

Dreamworks Video

RATING:

PG-13

FORMAT:

AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen

RUN TIME:

128 minutes

SUGGESTED PRICE:

26.99

REVIEWED BY:

Isabella Lucero

Two childhood friends spend their days running, grinning, catching a movie, reading a book in the graveyard, and carving their names into a lone pomegranate tree in the posh Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood of Kabul, Afghanistan.  The boys, Amir and Hassan, have an unequal friendship because Amir is the son of the man of the house and Hassan is an uneducated servant boy. Amir’s father seems to favor the valiant servant boy because Hassan doesn’t mind sticking up for Amir with the neighborhood bullies.  Hassan is honest, brave, and loyal, many of the qualities that you would hope for in a young man.

Of course there are cinematic kite flying sequences to remind the viewer of a brief period of tranquility that precedes the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union.  When the Soviet tanks come rolling in, Amir and his father have to abandon their privileged life and take off in the middle of the night. They eventually make their way to the U.S. and the once wealthy father has to work at a gas station while Amir attends a community college and eventually writes books. Unexpectedly, Amir is summoned back to Afghanistan to help his childhood friend Hassan.  Amir has to go undercover and wear a fake beard to fool the Taliban and finally stand up to neighborhood bullies.  This story asks if it is possible to redeem yourself after you have committed an unforgivable act.

The traveler in me loved to see the story of the boys played out in the streets of Kabul (it was actually shot in China since it remains to be too dangerous to shoot in Afghanistan) and I also always enjoy seeing how brave immigrants deal with new surroundings. 

BLUE RAY Featurettes

The featurettes include commentary with Marc Forster, Khaled Hosseini, and David Benioff, Words and Images from the “Kite Runner,” and a Theatrical Trailer in HD.

7.5 out of 10 binkies

Isabella Lucero is a writer, mother, cook, and gardener living in Tucson, Arizona.  She enjoys riding her bicycle and baking beautiful and tasty birthday cakes.