A Mighty Heart (2007)

***A Mighty Heart*** is a 2007 American drama film directed by Michael Winterbottom from a screenplay by John Orloff. It is based on the 2003 memoir of the same name by Mariane Pearl.

The film was screened out of competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, before being released in North America on June 22, 2007. *A Mighty Heart* was met with positive reviews from critics but was a box office failure.

## Shooting

* Filming was shot in two different years.
	+ A Mighty Heart was filmed primarily in India and France, from August 7th, 2006 to November 22nd, 2006. Fearing for the safety of star Angelina Jolie and the rest of the cast and crew, the vast majority of the film, set in Karachi, was filmed in Pune, India.
	+ The production also shot multiple scenes in Austin, Texas in early 2007 (February 5th - February 7th), including a key sequence with Marianne Pearl giving an interview in a Karachi hotel. Also filmed in Austin were exteriors of the Pearl family house (set in Los Angeles) and scenes set at *The Wall Street Journal* offices in New York, which were filmed in the offices of the *Austin American-Statesman*.

## Cast

* Dan Futterman - Danny Pearl
* Angelina Jolie - Mariane Pearl
* Archie Panjabi - Asra Nomani
* Mohammed Afzal - Shabbir
* Mushtaq Khan - Danny's Taxi Driver (as Mushtaq Ahmed)
* Daud Khan - Masud the Fixer
* Telal Saeed - Kaleem Yusuf
* Arif Khan - Mariane's Taxi Driver
* Tipu Taheer - Human Rights Director
* Amit Dhawan - Technical Supervisor
* Saira Nasir Khan - Nasrin
* Aliya Khan - Kashva
* Sarah Mone - Female Guest
* Bushra Parwani - Female Guest
* Zafar Karachiwala - Male Guest
* Danish Iqbal - Male Guest
* Ali Tejani - Male Guest
* Azfar Ali - Azfar
* Ahmed Alauddin Jamal - Khawaja (as Ahmed Jamal)
* Denis O'Hare - John Bussey
* Perrine Moran - Ruth Pearl
* Jeffry Kaplow - Judea Pearl
* Ishaque Ahmed - Arif
* Alyy Khan - Omar / Bashir
* Irrfan Khan - Captain
* Adnan Siddiqui - Dost Aliani
* Shah Murad Aliani - Farooq
* Imran Paracha - Major Major
* Imran Patel - Jamal Paracha
* Jean-Jacques Scaerou - Philippe Scaerou
* Veronique Darleguy - Véronique Laurent
* Will Patton - Randall Bennett
* Jillian Armenante - Maureen Platt
* Demetri Goritsas - John Skelton
* Zachary Coffin - Matt MacDowell (as Zack Coffin)
* Sajid Hasan - Zafir
* Farooq Khan - Noor
* Gary Wilmes - Steve LeVine
* Mikail Lotia - Hasan
* Baba Shaikh - Phone Engineer
* Amy Shindler - Michelle Pearl
* William Hoyland - John Bauman
* Bilal Saeed - Haider
* Sean Chapman - US Journalist
* Holly Goline - News Producer
* Amy Rosenthal - Tamara Pearl
* Nour Ayad - Ibrahim the Cook
* Lynn Blades - News Reader (as Lynne Blades)
* Ikram Bhatti - Sheikh Gilani
* Azdin Zaman - Farhad Naseem (as Fahad Hussain)
* Taj Khan - Suleiman
* Hasan Ali - Cell Phone Worker
* Naeem Sogay - Adil
* Sujata Humane - Omar's Aunt
* Sayed Masood - Doctor (as Dr. Sayed Masood)
* Imran Hasnee - Journalist at Sheraton
* Inder Misra - Lawyer
* Chad Chenouga - Satchi
* Mike Rosen - US Journalist
* Jenni Lee - US Journalist
* Elizabeth Dannheim - US Journalist
* Tom Spencer - US Phone Journalist
* Qasim Iqbal - Hotel Manager
* Fabienne Khaldi - Mariane's Mother
* Gigi Ledron - Woman in Orange
* Aimee Matimbia - French Midwife
* Harvesp Viraf Chiniwala - Baby Adam
* Nassim Benbrik - Adam (age 4)

**Rest of cast listed alphabetically:**

* Michelle Brew - International Press (uncredited)
* Pattie James - US Journalist (uncredited)
* Francois Larosa - French International Journalist (uncredited)
* Gary Teague - International Journalist (uncredited)
* Ned Yousef - Pakistani Journalist (uncredited)

### Archival footage

* Pervez Musharraf
* Colin Powell