The Kite Runner’s film adaptation left out the emotional depth, cultural complexity, and moral reckoning that made the book ...

The Kite Runner is a beautiful film about human ugliness and moving to a new and joyful place that’s all the more meaningful for being so hard won. So modern and enlightened in its portrait of ...

The Kite Runner is a adapted from the novel published in 2003 and author Khaled Hosseini says the kites are more about memory than metaphor. "To me, it is just a symbol of my childhood. I grew up ...

KABUL, Jan. 15 -- Afghanistan has banned the import and exhibition of "The Kite Runner," a film about the troubled friendship of two Afghan boys, on the grounds that it could incite violence.

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Culture Ministry has quietly banned the importing of “The Kite Runner,” a film based on the best- selling novel about childhood betrayal, ethnic tension and sexual ...

Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel Kite Runner opens as a film in November. But it is already causing concern in Afghanistan and in Hollywood for its depiction of ethnic tensions in Afghanistan ...

Helmer Marc Forster's richly detailed screen translation of Khaled Hosseini's beloved bestseller should reach beyond the book's many fans.

Thursday, the New York Times reported that Paramount Vantage will now release “The Kite Runner” on Dec. 14 instead of late November because of the depiction of the rape of a young boy in the film.

The producers' decision to make an as authentic-as-possible movie version of "The Kite Runner" has led to a collision with the Afghan cast's sense of honor and tribal ties, reports BBC Radio's ...

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A 12-year-old Afghan boy starring in the upcoming film “The Kite Runner” fears he and his family could be ostracized or even attacked because of a rape scene that he says he reluctantly acted ...