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Hero, A

[Opens Jan. 7 in theaters and available Jan. 21 on Amazon Prime Video.] After an Iranian calligrapher (Amir Jadidi), who has a secret girlfriend (Sahar Goldoost) and a young son (Saleh Karimai) struggling with stuttering while living with his sister (Sarina Farhadi) and brother in-law (Alireza Jahandideh), on a two-day leave from prison for failing to pay a debt to his uncompromising creditor (Mohsen Tanabandeh) returns a purse containing seventeen gold coins to a mysterious woman he believes is its rightful owner in Asghar Farhadi's captivating, award-winning, well-written, superbly acted, 126-minute film, he is initially hailed a hero until he isn't and struggles to regain his honor as details of his good deed come to light as he falls victim to the complexities and absurdities of a complex bureaucratic system, which makes the quip "no good deed goes unpunished" so true.
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