THE RESPONSE is a courtroom drama based on the actual transcripts of the Guantanamo Bay military tribunals. Conceived in the vein of "12 Angry Men", the film revolves around the trial of a suspected enemy combatant and the military judges who must decide his fate.
Writing
Actual tribunal transcripts. Reality wrote the horror.
Acting
Mulgrew's bureaucratic ice vs. Mandvi's desperate precision.
Director
Adam Rodgers
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sig Libowitz, who plays Captain Miller, is also the film's writer and a practicing attorney who worked actual Guantanamo cases. This isn't research—it's testimony.
Released 2008, when tribunal transcripts were still heavily redacted. The film reconstructs what secrecy hid—making it a document of its own time.
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