![]() ![]() Over the years, it’s been shown in schools, re-aired on television, and notoriously played in Paris the night before the 1998 USA versus Iran World Cup match. In the larger cultural imagination, the film was consigned to oblivion.īut Not Without My Daughter has its own curious legacy. ![]() But its $4 million opening weekend barely made a dent in the box office it was largely critically panned for its Islamophobic undertones and in re-airings, it could easily be mistaken for a Lifetime movie with a timely political pitch: Woman escapes from abusive Iranian husband, scary foreign country, and the evil clutches of Islam. It was a major motion picture when it premiered - 25 years ago today - starring one of the most-adored actors of the era, Sally Field, coming off the hit Steel Magnolias. Sally Field stars as Betty Mahmoody in Not Without My Daughter.īy all indications, Not Without My Daughter should be a forgettable movie. ![]()
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