A Mighty Heart Page #2

Synopsis: On January 23, 2002, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is to fly from Karachi to Dubai with his pregnant wife, Mariane, also a reporter. On the day before, with great care, he has arranged an interview in a café with an Islamic fundamentalist cleric. When Danny doesn't return, Mariane initiates a search. Pakistani police, American embassy personnel, and the FBI examine witnesses, phone records, e-mails, and hard drives. Who has him? Where is he? There's also the why: because of U.S. abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo, because of a history of Journal cooperation with the CIA, because Pearl is a Jew? Through it all, Mariane is clearheaded, direct, and determined.
Production: Paramount Vantage
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 4 wins & 17 nominations.
 
IMDB:
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Year:
2007
108 min
$9,093,521
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But what do the Americans

really know about Pakistan?

What do they know about Afghanistan?

Apart from bombing it all the time.

That's why I'm a journalist,

to let people know.

-That's a romantic idea of journalism.

-I don't think so.

Read the papers here,

you'll be definitely more cynical.

-Sweet Indian maiden.

-Yeah, whatever.

That sounds so wrong.

Please try later.

But that's how you guys

say it, right? "Hot."

-Thanks for dropping in, dude.

-See you soon, inshallah.

Say salaam to your dad, right?

I still can't get through to Danny.

Well, maybe they took him

to a madrasa out of town.

No, he would call me.

I'm going to check his computer.

Okay.

Maybe his battery is low or something.

"Dear Mr. Pearl,

thank you very much for your articles.

"I have passed the printout

to Shah saab.

"He has gone to Karachi for a few days.

"I will arrange an appointment

with the Sheikh in Karachi for you

"on Tuesday or Wednesday.

"Please give the Sheikh

my regards. Bashir.

"Sheikh saab is expecting you

at 7:
00 p.m. on Wednesday

"and hopefully

you will get at least half hour with him.

"Looking forward

to hearing from you. Bashir. "

How's it going?

I found the e-mails

setting up Danny's meeting with Gilani.

His contact is lmtiaz Siddique, 01300...

-Yeah. Yeah.

-...344

There's another number, hold on.

His brother's mobile.

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

Okay. Where was it?

No, this line is disconnected as well.

It's not working.

That e-mail address, "Nobadmashi."

In Urdu it means, like, "no wrongdoing."

It's a weird e-mail address.

The brother's number is bullshit

and Siddique's number is bullshit.

It's bullshit.

"Jamaat Ul-Fuqra."

-Fugra?

-Fugra, Fuqra, who cares?

Community of the Impoverished.

Their aim

is to purify Islam through violence.

"Ten unsolved assassinations.

"Seventeen firebombing cases

between 1979 and 1990.

"Possible link to Richard Reid,

the shoe bomber.

"They are suspected

to have connection to terrorists

"who bombed World Trade Center

in '93."

I didn't know Gilani was that serious.

No, Sheikh Gilani is a peaceful man.

He's always upset when people die.

So he was upset that

the World Trade Centers were bombed?

Yes, because many of his followers

are American.

Do you know who's behind the attack

on the World Trade Center?

-Who?

-The Jews.

-Who?

-The Jews.

Really?

Mossad are the only ones who

could have organized such an event.

Do you know that 4,000 Jews

who normally worked in the Towers

didn't turn up that day?

What are you? A Christian?

No, Jewish.

The American Consulate,

Corporal Bailey speaking.

How can I help you?

Hello, my name is Mariane Pearl

and I'm calling

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