The Kite Runner

Posted on December 14, 2007 at 8:00 am

B+

Lowest Recommended Age:	High School
MPAA Rating:	Rated PG-13 for strong thematic material including the sexual assault of a child, violence and brief strong language.
Profanity:	None
Alcohol/ Drugs:	None
Violence/ Scariness:	Disturbing material including child abuse, rape of male children and attempted rape of adult woman, woman stoned to death, abuse by occupying Soviet soldiers and by Taliban
Diversity Issues:	A theme of the movie
Date Released to Theaters:	December 14, 2007

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This faithful adaptation of the worldwide best-seller puts a struggle for personal redemption and atonement in the context of devastating divides, ethnic, cultural, poltical, and moral, set in Afghanistan before, during, and after the Soviet invasion of 1979. Loyalty, betrayal, even identity itself are themes that echo and circle back on themselves in this moving story of learning what it means to “be good again.”

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