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.
Acting
Streep's iceberg villainy vs. Gyllenhaal's slow-burn breakdown.
Direction
Hood's parallel timelines that crash together brutally.
Writing
The script trusts you to connect the moral dots yourself.
Director
Gavin Hood
Reese Witherspoon
Isabella Fields El-Ibrahimi
Jake Gyllenhaal
Douglas Freeman
Meryl Streep
Corrine Whitman
Alan Arkin
Senator Hawkins
Peter Sarsgaard
Alan Smith
Omar Metwally
Anwar El-Ibrahimi
Igal Naor
Abasi Fawal
Hadar Ratzon Rotem
Safiya
J.K. Simmons
Lee Mayer
Simon Abkarian
Said Abdel Aziz
Moa Khouas
Khalid
Zineb Oukach
Fatima Fawal
Aramis Knight
Jeremy El-Ibrahimi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during peak Bush-era 'torture porn' discourse alongside Zero Dark Thirty debates.
The real 'extraordinary rendition' program was still classified when this filmed; screenwriter Kelley Sane used public sources only.
US
