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A Mighty Heart

It was an event that shocked the world. This is the story you haven't heard.

That's very sweet of you, but I think I'll stick with Brad...

Set in 2002, this is the story of Daniel Pearl's widow. Daniel was a journalist based in Pakistan. He was kidnapped by extremists. Despite the best efforts of his wife, his employer and government departments from the US and Pakistan, he was beheaded. The film follows his wife through those tragic days as they struggled for his release.

106 minutes, No persons under 13 (Language)
Drama, Thriller.

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Credits
Cast	Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, Archie Panjabi, Denis O'Hare, Aly Khan, Irfan Khan, Will Patton
Director	Michael Winterbottom
Screenplay	John Orloff, from the book by Mariane Pearl
Music	Harry Escott, Molly Nyman
Cinematography	Marcel Zyskind
Editing	Peter Christelis
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS
Soundtrack	Not available
Made in	2007
Produced by	Paramount Vantage, Plan B Entertainment, Revolution Films
SA Distributor	UIP

FPB Report (SA)
Genre	Drama
Language	Infrequently mild to strong
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	Frequently mild to strong, within context.
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy
Drug abuse
Comments	The story is based on real life events that portrays the extent of the pain of terrorism from both sides of the spectrum.
These details are supplied by the FPB. If you have a problem with any of the above, please take it up directly with the FPB. Read the Classification Guidelines.

ScreenIt Report (USA)
Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross	Guns / Weapons	Profanity

Alcohol / Drugs	Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour	Frightening / Tense Scenes

Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes	Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
South African Media
Cape Argus/The StarZane Henry	15
Die BurgerLaetitia Pople	15
Cape TimesKenneth Turan	15
iAfrica.comRebekah Kendal	15
The CitizenPeter Feldman	12
Sunday TimesBarry Ronge	15
24.comIvan Sadler	15
International Media
BBC (UK)Stella Papamichael	10
Chicago Sunday TimesRoger Ebert	18
eye Weekly (Canada)Adam Nayman	10
ReelViews (USA)James Berardinelli	15
Rolling Stone (US)Peter Travers	18
ScreenIt (USA)	13
Metacritic.com38 critics	15
RottenTomatoes.com171 critics	14
RottenTomatoes.comTomatometer	15
Internet (IMDB)3659 Netizens	14

Average .. 72%	14

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