A Mighty Heart (2007) 7/10

Starring : Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, Irfan Khan, Denis O’Hare, Archie Panjabi, Will Patton, Gary Wilmes
Director : Michael Winterbottom
Running Time : 108 mins

Mariane Pearl (Jolie) is devastated when her husband Daniel (Futterman) goes missing while on his way to interview a religious leader in Karachi. Mariane becomes afraid that people may have discovered his Jewish lineage, and that he may have been tortured or even killed by a fundamentalist group who are angry about American treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

This is quite a simple story, based on the true events surrounding the disappearance of journalist Daniel Pearl, showing how his pregnant wife Mariane coped with not knowing what had happened to him. Jolie plays the role well, with some good understated emotion, but towards the end her acting seems a bit hammy and doesn’t do justice to the sad tale she's trying to portray.

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