Synopsis
Not Without My Daughter (1991) is an American dramatic thriller you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Brian Gilbert. Sally Field plays Betty Mahmoody, a real woman who flew to Tehran in 1984 with her Iranian husband and their daughter for what he promised was a short family visit. The passports were confiscated on the second day.
What follows is a film about suffocation by custom and law. Alfred Molina plays Moody — not as a stock antagonist but as a man caught between American life and his family's world back home, who chose one and locked the door. Field carries the film through the incremental narrowing of Betty's existence: the locked apartment, the covered hair, the watching eyes of people she cannot trust.
The film is openly one-sided — it tells exactly one woman's account, based on her memoir. That's its limitation and its grip. The escape across the mountains holds regardless of where you stand on the politics. Stream Not Without My Daughter online on iFILM.
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