Rating: R
Genre:
Thriller
Theatrical Release: 10/19/2007(USA)
Release Date: 02/19/2008
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1/DDS
Run Time: 122 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Profanity, Torture
Distributor/Studio: New Line Home Video
The director of the Academy Award-winning 2006
crime drama Tsotsi returns to the helm with this tale of a Middle East CIA operative who begins to have doubts about his latest assignment after witnessing the interrogation of a suspected suicide bomber by secret police. When Egyptian-born chemical engineer
Anwar El-Ibrahimi (
Omar Metwally) mysteriously vanishes on a routine flight from South Africa to Washington, his wife,
Isabella (
Reese Witherspoon), embarks on a frantic international search for her missing husband. At the same time, a CIA analyst (
Jake Gyllenhaal) arrives at a clandestine detention facility outside of United States. As the interrogation of
El-Ibrahimi gets under way, the CIA analyst is profoundly shaken by the unorthodox methods used by the man's captors, and quickly begins to reevaluate his assignment.
Peter Sarsgaard,
Meryl Streep, and
Alan Arkin co-star in this topical
political thriller penned by
Kelley Sane and produced by
Steve Golin.
~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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