MVD Entertainment Group
announced its latest addition to its premiere Marquee Collection series of
releases this past week. On Dec. 11 look
for director Brian Gilbert’s 1991 film adaptation of Betty Mahmoody’s harrowing
1987 true-life book, Not Without My Daughter, to make its
debut on Blu-ray.
Of note, Not
Without My Daughter was originally released on DVD in October of 2001
by MGM Home Entertainment and is currently out of print! Used DVD copies are currently fetching a cool
one hundred bill, so be sure to take advantage of this Blu-ray arrival from MVD
as they’ve set the SRP at just $24.95!!
Sally Field stars as Betty
Mahmoody, who married an Iranian-born doctor by the name of Dr. Sayyed Bozorg
Mahmoody (Alfred Molina) in 1977 and in time they had a daughter by the name of
Mahtob (Sheila Rosenthal). Despite
Betty’s misgivings (related to the taking of the American Embassy in Nov. of
1979 and the hostage crisis that followed), she agreed to a “family vacation”
in Tehran during the summer of 1984 in order to meet and spend time with her
husband’s family.
It was a mistake that she
would soon regret. When the two-week
stay was up, the good doctor told her that all three of them would be living in
Tehran, period!
The rules of Iranian
marriage law dictated that she was now an Iranian citizen, her daughter Mahtob
was also Iranian and for either of them to travel abroad they must have his
permission … which was never going to happen!!
Not Without My Daughter chronicles Betty Mahmoody’s 18-month stay in Iran
as the prisoner of her estranged husband and the life-or-death escape plan that
she set in motion. No matter what, she
was not leaving her daughter behind!
Bonus features include a
“Making Of” production featurette.
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