Children of Heaven

A young boy loses his sister's only pair of shoes. To prevent their parents from finding out, they agree to share his pair of shoes, but the holes in this plan soon become apparent. So plan B has the boy trying to get his sister another pair of shoes by winning an athletic race. The storyline is merely a cover for some social commentary and exposés on contemporary Iranian life.
Farsi with English subtitles.

89 minutes.
All ages .
Comedy, Drama

Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.

Losing my shoes burst my bubble.

Credits

Cast	Mohammad Amir Naji, Fereshte Sarabandi, Karnal Mirkarimi
Director	Majid Majidi
Screenplay	Majid Majidi
Music	Trevor Jones
Cinematography	Parviz Malekzaade
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, DTS
Made in	1997
Produced by	The Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children & Young Adults

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Movies for Africa Ian Douglas	10
Cape Argus Aldrin Naidu	15
The Cape Times Jean-Pierre Rossouw	15
The Star Janet Maslin	14
Sunday Times Barry Ronge	15
Rapport Barrie Hough	20
SA City Life	10
eye Weekly Tom Lyons	10
Box Office Shlomo Schwartzberg	13
Total Film Tom Dawson	10
What the People say
Internet 102 Netizens	17
Average .. 68%	14

Visitor Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
Colleen Keeler	20
Average .. 100%	20

Visitor Comments

Ian Douglas: A sweet if rather simple story. Quite weird to see the meshing of Western and Islamic lifestyles.

Ali Zahra: Good and realistic.

Colleen Keeler: This movie had a great message for all to learn from and I would highly recommend to any and all.

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Children of Heaven

Credits

Ratings

What the Critics say

What the People say

Average .. 68%

Visitor Ratings

Average .. 100%

Visitor Comments