A Mighty Heart tells Mariane Pearl's account of the disappearance and murder of her Wall Street journalist husband Daniel Pearl.Daniel was the South Asia Bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal and was researching a story on shoe bomber Richard Reid.The story led the journalist to Karachi in Pakistan where he had been promised access to an exclusive source. He never returned. At the time of the ordeal his wife Mariane was six months pregnant with the couple's child. Her husband's bravery led his widow to write a book about his kidnapp, the desperate search for him and his sunsequent murder A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Daniel Pearl.She wrote the book to introduce Adam to the father he would never meet. Directed by British film maker Michael Winterbottom A Mighty Heart stars Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie as mariane Pearl and Dan Futterman, Oscar nominated for his Capote screenplay, as Daniel Pearl.
In addition to Jolie and Futterman, A Mighty Heart stars Irrfan Khan (The Namesake), Tony Award winner Denis O’Hare (Take Me Out), Archie Panjabi (Bend It Like Beckham), Will Patton (Remember the Titans), Pakistani television star Adnan Siddiqui (Amer Bail), and Obie Award winner Gary Wilmes (Red Light Winter).
The film was produced by Brad Pitt and Dede Gardner from Plan B Entertainment who recently produced Oscar winning movie The Departed.
A Mighty Heart is released 21 September