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The Stoning of Soraya M.

Based on a true incident which lead to a best-selling book, this is the tale of a woman falsely accused of adultry in Iran soon after liberation. Her husband had his eye on a teenager and needed to get rid of his wife. We follow developments as others in the village are sucked into the plot leading to the tragic murder of Soraya. Warning: not for the faint of heart.

112 minutes, No persons under 16 (Language, Violence)
Crime, Drama, On the art circuit

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Credits
Cast	Shohreh Aghdashloo, Mozhan Marnò, James Caviezel, Navid Negahbanm, Ali Pourtash, David Diaan, Parviz Sayyad, Vida Ghahremani, Vachik Mangassarian
Director	Cyrus Nowrasteh
Screenplay	Betsy Giffen Noweasteh, Cyrus Nowrasteh, from the book by Freidoune Sahebjam
Music	John Debney
Cinematography	Joel Ransom
Editing	David Handman, Geoffrey Rowland
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS
Soundtrack	Available
Made in	2008
Produced by	Fallen Films, Mpower Pictures
SA Distributor	Nu Metro

FPB Report (SA)
Genre	Drama
Language	Strong, impactful, occasional
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	Strong, graphic, gory, bloody, prolonged.
Prejudice	Historical prejudice against women is displayed
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None
Comments	None
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Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
International Media
Bollywood (India)Mark Keizer	10
Chicago Sunday TimesRoger Ebert	15
eye Weekly (Canada)Adam Nayman	5
Metacritic.com20 critics	10
RottenTomatoes.com59 critics	11
RottenTomatoes.comTomatometer	11
Internet (IMDB)563 Netizens	16

Average .. 56%	11

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