TY - ADVS AU - Horberg,William AU - Parkes,Walter F. AU - Yeldham,Rebecca AU - Walsh,E.Bennett AU - Benioff,David AU - Forster,Marc AU - Abdalla,Khalid AU - Ershadi,Homayoun AU - Toub,Shaun AU - Leoni,Atossa AU - Taghmaoui,Saïd AU - Ebrahimi,Zekiria AU - Bakhtyari,Ali Danish AU - Mahmoodzada,Ahmad Khan AU - Tanha,Nabi AU - Ehsas,Elham AU - Nawabi,Tamim AU - Farookh,Qadir AU - Yusoufzai,Abdul Salam AU - Hosseini,Khaled ED - Dreamworks Pictures. ED - Sidney Kimmel Entertainment (Firm) ED - Participant Productions. ED - Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm) TI - The kite runner SN - 1415738548 AV - PN1995.9.S87 K584 2008 U1 - 791.43/72 22 PY - 2008///] CY - Hollywood, Calif. PB - Paramount Home Entertainment KW - Male friendship KW - Drama KW - Social classes KW - Betrayal KW - Boys KW - Cometas (Aeronáutica) KW - Afghanistan KW - Teatro KW - bidex KW - Amistad KW - Kites KW - sears KW - Secrecy KW - Friendship KW - Kabul (Afghanistan) KW - Thriller KW - Feature KW - local KW - Feature films KW - Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.) KW - Film adaptations KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired KW - Fiction films N1 - Based on the book by Khaled Hosseini; Special features: commentary with Marc Forster, Khalid Hosseini and David Benioff; words from The kite runner; images from The kite runner; social action PSA; theatrical trailer; Director of photography, Roberto Schaefer ; editor, Matt Chessé ; music, Alberto Iglesias ; costume designer, Frank L. Fleming ; production designer, Carlos Conti; Khalid Abdalla, Homayoun Ershadi, Shaun Toub, Atossa Leoni, Saïd Taghmaoui, Zekiria Ebrahimi, Ali Danish Bakhtyari, Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada, Nabi Tanha, Elham Ehsas, Bahram Ehsas, Tamim Nawabi, Oadir Farookh, Abdul Salam Yusoutzai; MPAA rating: PG-13; strong thematic material including sexual assault of a child, violence, and brief strong language N2 - In a divided country on the verge of war, two childhood friends, Amir and Hassan, are about to be torn apart forever. It's a glorious afternoon in Kabul and the skies are bursting with the exhilarating joy of a kite-fighting tournament. But in the aftermath of the day's victory, one boy's fearful act of betrayal will mark their lives forever and set in motion an epic quest for redemption. Now, after twenty years of living in America, Amir returns to a perilous Afghanistan under the Taliban's iron-fisted rule to face the secrets that still haunt him and take one last daring chance to set things right ER -