The release of The Kite Runner was held over into the New Year after originally being slated for Boxing Day, and for once this decision seems sound — competition for attention among the major releases may have meant
this remarkably moving film was overlooked by most of those who hadn't read the Khaled Hosseini novel.
Theo Taplitz, in a
remarkably mature, nuanced feature
film debut, plays Jake, an introverted thirteen - year - old with dreams of being an artist who
moves with this family from Manhattan to Brooklyn when his father inherits an apartment and a storefront there.