

How far will you go? To find yourself.
Alan Clay, a struggling American businessman, travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a new technology to the King, only to be challenged by endless Middle Eastern bureaucracy, a perpetually absent monarch, and a suspicious growth on his back.
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Contemporary, classical in form, contemplative and raw.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- rawmeticulous
- cooloverwhelming
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Cast
- Tom HanksAlan Clay
- Sarita ChoudhuryDr. Zahra Hakeem
- Sidse Babett KnudsenHanne
- Ben WhishawDave
- Tom SkerrittRon Clay
- Tracey FairawayKitty Clay
- David MenkinBrad
- Omar ElbaYousef
- Jane PerryRuby Clay
- Amira El SayedMaha
Crew
- Tom TykwerDirector
- Tom TykwerScreenplay
- Dave EggersNovel
- Frank GriebeDirector of Photography
- Johnny KlimekOriginal Music Composer
- Tom TykwerOriginal Music Composer
- Alexander BernerEditor
- Uwe SchottProducer
- Gary GoetzmanProducer
- Arcadiy GolubovichProducer
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