Not Without My Daughter (1991) Reviews & Ratings

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Not Without My Daughter reviews

Not Without My Daughter holds a 6.9/10 average from 374 TMDB ratings.

_**American mother & daughter ‘imprisoned’ in an alien culture of a strict Muslim country**_ In 1984, an Iranian doctor in Michigan (Alfred Molina) insists on visiting his family back home after ten years and insists that his wife (Sally Field) & daughter come along for a 2-week trip. They are horrified to discover that the doctor has no intention of going back to America and holds them hostage in Tehran with his fa…
— Wuchak (7/10)

An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.

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