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The Kite Runner full movie is released on Jan 11, 2008. Watch The Kite Runner online - the Arabic Drama movie from United States , which has achieved a worldwide gross of $75,011,029. The Kite Runner is directed by Marc Forster and created by David Benioff with Khalid Abdalla and Atossa Leoni. The Kite Runner is available online on fuboTV and Paramount Plus.

In the 70's in Afghanistan, the Pushtun boy Amir and the Hazara boy Hassan, who is his loyal friend and son of their Hazara servant Ali, are raised together in Amir's father house, playing and kiting on the streets of a peaceful Kabul. Amir feels that his wise and good father Baba blames him for the death of his mother in the delivery, and also that his father loves and prefers Hassan to him. In return, Amir feels a great respect for his father's best friend Rahim Khan, who supports his intention to become a writer. After Amir winning a competition of kiting, Hassan runs to bring a kite to Amir, but he is beaten and raped by the brutal Assef in an empty street to protect Amir's kite; the coward Amir witness the assault but does not help the loyal Hassam. On the day after his birthday party, Amir hides his new watch in Hassam's bed to frame the boy as a thief and force his father to fire Ali, releasing his conscience from recalling his cowardice and betrayal. In 1979, the Russians invade Afghanistan and Baba and Amir escape to Pakistan. In 1988, they have a simple life in Fremont, California, when Amir graduates in a public college for the pride and joy of Baba. Later Amir meets his countrywoman Soraya and they get married. In 2000, after the death of Baba, Amir is a famous novelist and receives a phone call from the terminal Rahim Khan, who discloses secrets about his family, forcing Amir to return to Peshawar, in Pakistan, in a journey of redemption.

As know as:

The Kite Runner, Drageløperen, Drachenläufer, Tek za zmajem, 君のためなら千回でも

Release Date (Streaming):

Mar 24, 2009

Countries:

United States, China, United Kingdom

Language:

Arabic, Dari, English, Pashtu, Russian, Urdu

Production Companies:

Dreamworks Pictures, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, Participant

Gross worldwide:

$75,011,029

Taglines:

There is a way to be good again.

Reviews

Ben Kenigsberg
Time Out
by rottentomatoes, Nov 17, 2011
Amy Nicholson
I.E. Weekly
Hosseini's over-done melodrama that doesn't so much open our eyes to Afghanistan as reinforce everything negative we've already suspected.
by rottentomatoes, Jan 29, 2008
Jonathan F. Richards
Film.com
The Kite Runner is dramatically and visually sumptuous
by rottentomatoes, Jan 03, 2008

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