What if someone you love... just disappeared?
When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside the US.
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Contemporary, grave, earnest and classical in form.
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- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Dec 20256/10
I remember there were all sort of speculations about the CIA using rendition techniques around the time this was released, and I actually thought it could have been a powerful light to shine on an US government that tended to act with impunity when it suited it - especially if your name didn’t happen to originate in the West. That’s what happens to Egyptian-born engineer “Anwar” (Omar Metwally) who is travelling home to his wife (Reese Witherspoon) in the States when he is “diverted” on the instructions of “Whitman” (Meryl Streep) to a dark and unholy place where he is stripped of his clothes and his dignity, then questioned about a recent bombing atrocity - all under the watchful eye of “Freeman” (Jake Gyllenhaal) who is clearly torn between loyalty to his country and his own sense of human decency. Meantime, as you might expect, the wife of the captive man - completely unaware of his whereabouts, raises the issues with her senator (Alan Arkin) via his aide “Smith” (Peter Sarsgaard) but they seem more preoccupied with the optics of appearing to be on the wrong side of public opinion than they are about finding this man. Now of course there is the slightest of chances that “Anwar”
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Cast
- Reese WitherspoonIsabella Fields El-Ibrahimi
- Jake GyllenhaalDouglas Freeman
- Meryl StreepCorrine Whitman
- Alan ArkinSenator Hawkins
- Peter SarsgaardAlan Smith
- Omar MetwallyAnwar El-Ibrahimi
- Igal NaorAbasi Fawal
- Hadar Ratzon RotemSafiya
- J.K. SimmonsLee Mayer
- Simon AbkarianSaid Abdel Aziz
Crew
- Gavin HoodDirector
- Kelley SaneWriter
- Dion BeebeDirector of Photography
- Paul HepkerOriginal Music Composer
- Mark KilianOriginal Music Composer
- Megan GillEditor
- Steve GolinProducer
- David KanterProducer
- Mark MartinProducer
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