Not Without My Daughter

Before he died (or maybe after the movie came out) the husband refuted in writing Betty's book.

Still, third world husbands tend to go native again after returning home.

My mom really likes this movie.

Dad, not so much.

Of course he refuted it. What's he going to do, say "Yes, it's true, I was a homicidal Islamic shit"?

The book is fap material for fundie fraus. It's a recurring favorite at my mother's Lutheran book club.

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I freaking love Sally Field. This movie, and A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story, were big in my house. I lost count how many times I have actually watched them.

I rewatched this movie last night after not having seen it in years, and I had never really paid attention to how sexy the guy who played the husband was.

The title of the movie is hilarious

R8 How so?

I watched it as a young adult and the story and other incidents really formed my view on religious dogmatic overreach. Scary shit!

I would freak out like this woman did if my husband fled with my cat.

The title is similar to Diane Keaton's Lifetime MOW "Because I Said So"

I never actually saw this but I did see Eye for an Eye which came out a few years later - also schlocky crap but also pretty gruesome and disturbing. And funny enough, Sally looked younger in that movie than in this one - wonder why.

Alfred Molina was sexy? Umf, idk on that one.

[quote]Alfred Molina was sexy? Umf, idk on that one.

I’m going through a LONG dry spell, so maybe I’m hallucinating and just desperate.🤷‍♂️

The real husband was bald and ugly. I'm old enough to remember pictures on TV how Iran was before Khomeini and after. Scared the hell out of me. Not that things were ideal under the Shah, but under Khomeini it was a religious autocratic hell. Clerics on TV said democracy and feminism were the devil's work.

The movie is great actually and Frau camp as it may be, it’s super intense. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time.

Eye for an Eye actually made me look away. One of the most gruesome rape scenes in mainstream cinema up to that point and not what you’d expect from a Sally Field movie.

We saw this movie in junior high I guess to learn what life was like in the middle east.

I don't think this movie could be made today.

The original title was, "Never Fuck A Persian".

[quote]The original title was, "Never Fuck A Persian".

Wrong. It was, “Never Get Pregnant By A Persian.”

My favourite part is when Sally arrives in Iran and in in-laws present her with what she thinks is a present. She is so grateful and thankful to them only to open it and find the hajib she must wear.

Not by coincidence, it showed up exactly when US-Iranian relations were terrible