A Mighty Heart | 
| Director: Michael Winterbottom
Actors: Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, Irrfan Khan, Archie Panjabi, Mohammed Afzal
Studio: Paramount Vantage
Category: DVD
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Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 20154
Format: Color, Dolby, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 108 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.5
MPN: PARD350524D
UPC: 097363505242
EAN: 0097363505242
ASIN: B000VBB6F6
Theatrical Release Date: June 22, 2007
Release Date: October 16, 2007
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Product Description
On January 23, 2002, Mariane Pearl's world changed forever. Her husband Daniel, South Asia bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, was researching a story on shoe bomber Richard Reid. The story drew them to Karachi where a go-between had promised access to an elusive source. As Danny left for the meeting, he told Mariane he might be late for dinner. He never returned. In the face of death, Danny's spirit of defiance and his unflinching belief in the power of journalism led Mariane to write about his disappearance, the intense effort to find him and his eventual murder in her memoir A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl. Six months pregnant when the ordeal began, she was carrying a son that Danny hoped to name Adam. She wrote the book to introduce Adam to the father he would never meet. Transcending religion, race and nationality, Mariane's courageous desire to rise above the bitterness and hatred that continues to plague this post 9/11 world, serves as the purest expression of the joy of life she and Danny shared.
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A Mighty Heart comes at the murder of journalist Daniel Pearl with a de-glamorized intensity: it's not a melodrama about Pearl's kidnapping and killing at the hands of Islamic terrorists, but a near-documentary about the process of trying to find him. Thus the center of the film is not Pearl (Dan Futterman) but his wife Mariane (Angelina Jolie), a cool customer who manages--almost--to maintain her calm throughout the weeks-long ordeal. Director Michael Winterbottom is less overtly political here than in his Road to Guantanamo, although the reactions of various authorities, from U.S. officials to local Pakistani cops, give the flavor of different attitudes and approaches. Jolie, playing the Dutch-Afro-Cuban Mariane Pearl, does nicely at playing her character's control (others marvel at her sangfroid), yet she remains recognizably human throughout. By no means a star turn, the movie leaves Mariane for long stretches, and other actors shine: Irfan Khan as a detective, Denis O'Hare as Daniel Pearl's Washington Post editor, and Will Patton as a stymied diplomat. As engrossing as the movie generally is, the point of emphasizing the police-procedural method is sometimes obscure. Oddly enough, by rejecting the usual string-pulling of conventional Hollywood drama, A Mighty Heart ends up without a strong point of view--as good as its pieces are. --Robert Horton
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 Sorry to say - I also found it boring. May 1, 2009
Filmfan (Denmark)
I agree with the comments that it's a boring film - no matter how important the subject. And any actress could have played the part that Jolie plays. She just looks sad most of the time. Moves slowly, with a sad look. That's about all the acting that was done on her part, I'd say, except for one emotional scene. (Several people write about her beauty. I don't see that, either. But that's my problem, I guess.) Important subject, but a bad film, I think. Rent it before you buy it, I'd say.
 Finally Found It January 13, 2009
Bridget Hanafin (AZ)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this for a friend of mine for Christmas. She wanted to see it in the theatre and I don't think it ever showed at a theatre near us. If it did it was gone in the blink of an eye. We tried to find this in every store we could think of and could not. I finally did a search on the internet and found it here. The shipper was great. Got this package in days after payment.
 Moving film: true to the spirit of Daniel Pearl January 7, 2009
Amy Steele (Boston, MA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Yes, we know how it all ends but we do not know everything that happened between the kidnapping and his vicious execution. Winterbottom takes the material in A Mighty Heart and layers it so that the audience becomes invested in Mariane's passionate love for her husband and ultimately relates to her frantic search to find him. As Pearl, Angelina Jolie delves into every angle of her personality: her intensity, her strength, her immense heart and her fairness which is an extension of her journalism career and her worldly view of things.
A Mighty Heart is a remarkable love story and an intense drama.
 Rather flat retelling of a story we know October 28, 2008
Jean E. Pouliot (Newburyport, MA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The story of Wall Street Journal newsman Danny Pearl is know in its outlines, culminating in his kidnapping and brutal murder in 2002. "A Mighty Heart" brings the story to life by allowing us to accompany Mariane Pearl, Danny's French-born journalist wife, as she agonizes over her husband's abduction. Angelina Jolie does a creditable, if one-dimensional, job of portraying Mariane's courage and anguish, as well as the attempts of WSJ editors, FBI and Pakistani authorities to track down Danny's whereabouts before his kidnappers take irrevocable action. The film manages to inject an bit of drama into the story, though (truth be told) knowing the outcome sucked a lot of the air out of the film's suspense factor. There is little drama in the efforts of the searchers. Pakistani special forces are portrayed as genuinely interested in helping Mariane find Danny. And Danny is portrayed (in flashbacks) as appropriately cautious in tracking own leads for a story. Predictably, he and Mariane (expecting their first child) have a perfect and loving relationship. Gone is the smirky, smart aleck that the real Pearl projected, even in his kidnap photos. And what of the killers -- why did they act the way they did? A better film might have, like "Munich," attempted to flesh out their grievances. The film shied away from a good-guy-bad-guy approach, hinting only distractedly at inter-agency dynamics that might have hobbled the hunt. Cinematically, the film was gorgeous, with terrific backlit shots, including those of Jolie in her grief. The film is worthwhile to provide images for a better telling of the details of the hunt for Danny's killers.
Though wonderfully shot, "A Mighty Heart" falls a beat or two short of being riveting.
A Mighty Motion Picture October 27, 2008
Charles Monheim (pittsburgh, pa)
Angelina Jolie stars in the story of the terrorist kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. She plays Mariane Pearl, Daniel's wife, and much of the movie centers around her efforts to find her husband, before it is too late. One needs to pay attention, as it is a little difficult to follow all the leads in the kidnapping, good and bad. Definitely worth the time. The story more than held my attention. In fact, it was like a book that one cannot put down.
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