Posted on 06/22/2025 10:26:55 AM PDT by vespa300
FILM DESCRIPTION: In this docudrama based on true events, a mid-'80s Michigan housewife finds her life turned upside down when a vacation to Tehran with her Iranian husband turns into virtual imprisonment for her and her young daughter. Betty Mahmoody (Sally Field) is reluctant to visit the wartorn homeland of her doctor husband, Moody (Alfred Molina). But, depressed about the racism of the American medical establishment and pining for contact with his family, Moody convinces her to join him for a two-week jaunt. The Islamic fundamentalism and strange customs of Iran bewilder and frighten Betty and her daughter, Mahtob (Sheila Rosenthal). But nothing prepares her for Moody's announcement that the family will be remaining in Tehran indefinitely. Despite beatings and more pervasive psychological control from her husband and his relatives, Betty makes it to the Swiss embassy (there is no American ambassador at the time). There, she learns that as the wife of an Iranian, she is now automatically considered a citizen and that she has absolutely no parental rights over Mahtob in this country. Betty then endures several years as a virtual prisoner, escaping only with the help of Westernized Iranian friends. Based on the book by the real-life Mahmoody and William Hoffer, Not Without My Daughter was coincidentally released during the long build-up to 1991's Gulf War.
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For anyone who doesn’t remember Iran of 1979.
Iranians here in the USA, “Persians” many long for the return to pre 79. They are smart people too.
Thanks for posting that.
> Betty Mahmoody <
I think I see Betty’s problem right there. Do a little research before you take that leap, ladies.
(Goes for guys, too. Just maybe not as much.)
Excellent movie- too bad the star is a raging LWer....
That movie...! Terrifying.
What dumbass would marry someone from that culture? Seriously.
The book was very good, too.
Thanks for this post. What a beautiful scene.
“Without My Inbred Musloid Husband”
Thank you....
That book was good. It was also where I first heard of Ross Perot.
Yes, the music is so perfect. Thank u.
Yes...Real Iranians
call themselves
Persians.
hahaha......:) exactly.
Her husband was fully Americanized and 5hey had a good l8fe...
“Her husband was fully Americanized... “
So she thought.
I remember I was in Technical Training at Keesler AFB in 1977-78. There were Iranian men there receiving training. One instructor failed one of their students out, and he went home and was executed. They dated women there and some were distraught when November 1979 happened. They were crying and wanted to go to Iran with them. STUPID...
I had two Persian bosses during my career. Both were princes of men. Smart, engaging, very well educated, good managers, and successful.
They both were able to get out of Iran after the Shah fell. Their escape stories were really something, but not as amazing as my Vietnamese gardener’s escape from the NVA. He was a full colonel in the South Vietnam army, was captured and escaped to the south, hiding in swamps during the day and moving only at night.
I had a young Vietnamese engineer working for me who escaped on the boat lift from Vietnam. He was a young child and remembered getting strafed at sea by NV planes.
Then there were my great grandparents who fled from Danzig, Germany after the Soviet invasion in April 1945.
It’s amazing how many people I’ve known who have harrowing escape stories.
Should be a warning to any American woman planning to marry a moslem. I saw such a woman at the local hospital in 2016. All Muslim Veiled and Hijabed up with two children.
Very American. She allowed her children to pet a stray dog there. I bet her husband would have had a fit over that. (I now have the dog)
Saw another at a local store all covered from head to foot in black. IN THE OZARKS!
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