MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gavin Hood
Genres: Thriller
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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, Rovi

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