Rendition
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| On DVD: | February 19, 2008 |
| Running time: | 2h 2m | Genre: | Thriller |
Douglas Freeman (Jake Gyllenhaal), a CIA analyst based in North Africa, is forced to question his assignment after he witnesses the brutal and unorthodox interrogation of an Egyptian-American by secret North African police.
When Anwar El-Ibrahimi (Omar Metwalley), an Egyptian-American chemical engineer whose family emigrated to the United States when he was a boy, is suspected of a terrorist act, his pregnant wife, Isabella El-Ibrahimi (Reese Witherspoon), does everything in her power to find her missing husband, who has seemingly disappeared during a flight from Cape Town, South Africa to Washington, D.C.
She enlists the help of a politically-connected college friend, Alan Smith (Peter Sarsgaard), an aid to Senator Hawkins (Alan Arkin), who uncovers the troubling fact that Anwar has been shipped off to a third World country for interrogation on the orders of the CIA's head of terrorism, Corrine Whitman (Meryl Streep).
Isabella and Douglas team up to secure Anwar's release from a secret detention facility somewhere in the Middle East.
When Anwar El-Ibrahimi (Omar Metwalley), an Egyptian-American chemical engineer whose family emigrated to the United States when he was a boy, is suspected of a terrorist act, his pregnant wife, Isabella El-Ibrahimi (Reese Witherspoon), does everything in her power to find her missing husband, who has seemingly disappeared during a flight from Cape Town, South Africa to Washington, D.C.
She enlists the help of a politically-connected college friend, Alan Smith (Peter Sarsgaard), an aid to Senator Hawkins (Alan Arkin), who uncovers the troubling fact that Anwar has been shipped off to a third World country for interrogation on the orders of the CIA's head of terrorism, Corrine Whitman (Meryl Streep).
Isabella and Douglas team up to secure Anwar's release from a secret detention facility somewhere in the Middle East.
| Director: | Gavin Hood |
| Studio: | Alliance Films |
| Producer(s): | Steve Golin, Marcus Viscidi, David Kanter, Omar Metwally, Chris Sivertson |
| Cast: | Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Meryl Streep, Alan Arkin, Peter Sarsgaard, Omar Metwally |
| Writer(s): | Kelley Sane |
| Official Site: | www.renditionmovie.com |
