Feminist (or American, or comprehensively Western) nightmare about an Iranian immigrant doctor who, in 1984, takes his happy Michigan family to visit his homeland, reverts there to the "primitive," and refuses to allow his wife and daughter to leave: "Islam's the greatest gift I can give my child." The factually-based story has a certain breathlessness as narrative, though the treatment (with ill omens signalled as if by flare-gun, and Sally Field outmugging Tragedy's Mask) turns an extraordinary adventure into something as ordinary as a TV movie. With Alfred Molina; directed by Brian Gilbert. (1991) — Duncan Shepherd
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