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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0736899080020
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Facets
Manufacturer: Facets
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Facets
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 13, 2004
Running Time: 88 minutes
Sales Rank: 47805
Studio: Facets
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
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'Harrowing!' – LA TIMES 'Poetic!' – VARIETY ** screened widely on West Coast In the Islamic Republic of Iran, strict laws govern public interaction between the sexes. Boys and girls who are not related can be picked up by the police for doing nothing more than simply enjoying a walk together in the park. 15-year-old Tadaie and her friend Aideen undergo such a humiliation. Tadaie’s furious parents forbid her to ever see the boy, but the spirited Tadaie refuses to give in. She decides to leave home and thus begins a fascinating odyssey through the Tehran streets that are not without danger to this sheltered, upper-middle-class girl. THE GIRL IN THE SNEAKERS tells a beautiful story of youthful rebellion and its consequences. Made without any moral judgment, it is a lovely snapshot of first love and its subsequent disappointment.
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Rating: - is life that bad???
a young girl who is in her teens is plagued by the realities and expectations of her life. living in what is assumed to be a middle class lifestyle, she is arrested in the beginning of the film because she is seen by police walking with a boy and talking to him in the park who is unrelated to her. this type of casual contact among the sexes is not acceptable. the parents are notified and after being examined and confirmed that she is still a virgin, the carges are dropped, and she is sent home with her parents. distraught and depressed by her life she skips school the following day and plans to run away. she wanders around tehran and bumps into all sorts of people. in a state of ignorance and being overtrusting that people are geniunly good and will understand her plight, she starts to realize that her situation is really not that bad. one man she encounters appears to console and defend her plight, then trying to take her home, she realizes he is out for his own interests. she meets a homeless woman and her son, and feels sympothetic to their situation, and joins them, but becomming fearful as night falls, she becomes unable to rest either alone or among the homeless camp of people she is introduced to by the woman she has met. she finds that people are desperate and how gone to terrible lengths to survive. throughout the entire film, in between her wandering and meeting people, she is constantly at a phone booth trying to reach the boy she was with in the beginning of the film. she beleives he ... Read More
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