![]() With no other options, Betty and Mahtob return home with Moody.īetty learns that her father is seriously ill. They return to the school, but the women from the school forbid her from taking Mahtob. ![]() She finds a telephone booth and calls a woman from the Swiss embassy whom she had spoken with previously. She leaves with Moody, but flees when he is distracted. When she and Mahtob arrive at school, Moody is there waiting for them and attacks Betty. Betty uses this time to meet with Hossein, and they discuss an escape route. The women at the school tell Betty that they sympathize with her, and though they will not allow her to use the telephone, they allow her to bring Mahtob to school hours after she would normally arrive. Mahtob does not adjust to her new Iranian school and has to be accompanied to school by Betty. Betty accepts Hossein's assistance, especially after he warns her that Mahtob, when she reaches nine years old, could be at risk of being forced into marriage or drafted as a child soldier. He puts her in contact with a pair of humanitarian Iranians, Hossein and his sister, who offer to help Betty and Mahtob return to the United States. By chance, during a trip to the marketplace, she meets a sympathetic storekeeper who allows her to use his telephone and overhears her conversations with the Swiss Embassy. ![]() Watched by Moody's sister, Betty convinces him that they should move out of her home and into Mammal's home. Moody, alarmed by Betty's absence from the house, threatens to kill her if she tries anything again.įor 18 months Betty conforms to her husband's wishes in order to gain Moody's trust. Because Iran is an Islamic republic governed by sharia law, Betty cannot leave the country or make decisions concerning her daughter without her husband's permission. Betty sneaks out of the house and visits the embassy, but is told that under Iran's nationality law, she acquired Iranian citizenship upon her marriage to Moody and thus is not entitled to consular protection. Her mother tells her to seek help from the American Interests Section of the Swiss Embassy. One day Betty answers a phone call from her mother and reveals she is trapped in Iran. Moody becomes more hostile and abusive to his wife and daughter, preventing Betty from leaving the house or even using the telephone. Iran's war with Iraq continues, with the family having to shelter in place during an Iraqi missile attack Moody blames these difficulties on American support for Iraq. Betty tries to earn sympathy from Moody's family, but is scorned by them. When Betty protests, Moody becomes enraged and strikes her. Betty questions this, but Moody brushes this off, suggesting that they will take a later flight.Īfter Betty insists that they go to the airport anyway, Moody reveals that he never intended for them to return, and that they will remain in Iran permanently. The night before their flight back to the United States, Moody's brother Mammal tells Moody and Betty that in order for them to go back home, their passports would have to have been taken to the airport for approval three days prior. Upon their arrival, Mahtob is embraced, while Betty's unfamiliarity with the family's Islamic lifestyle inadvertently offends some members of Moody's family. Moody claims that his Iranian family wants to meet Betty and Mahtob and asks them to come with him for a two-week visit.ĭespite her deep fears about visiting Iran, particularly due to the Iranian Hostage Crisis of several years earlier, Betty reluctantly agrees after her husband promises they will safely return to America. Due to his background, he is often mocked and ridiculed by American physicians at the hospital where he works. In 1984, an Iranian physician, Sayyed Bozorg "Moody" Mahmoody lives in the United States with his American wife Betty and their daughter Mahtob. Sheila Rosenthal and Roshan Seth star as Mahtob Mahmoody and Houssein the smuggler, respectively. In 1990, the film was shot in the United States, Turkey and Israel, and the main characters Betty Mahmoody and Sayyed Bozorg "Moody" Mahmoody are played by Sally Field and Alfred Molina, respectively. Not Without My Daughter is a 1991 American drama film based on the book of the same name, depicting the escape of American citizen Betty Mahmoody and her daughter from her abusive husband in Iran.
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