Hampered by a dull leading performance, Marc Foster and screenwriter David Benioff's adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's hugely popular novel skimps on the book's real value — Hosseini's recollection of a modern, progressive Afghanistan and its fate in the hands of foreign invaders and religious fanatics — in favor of bland melodrama and absurd dramatics.
San Francisco, 2000. Just as novelist Amir Qidiri (Khalid Abdalla) receives copies of his new book, "A Season for Ashes," at the apartment he shares with his wife (Atossa Leoni), he also receives a phone call from Rahim Khan (Shaun Toub), his late father's friend from the old days in Afghanistan. Rahim, who ha...
Released:
2007
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
122 mins