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Rendition is a 2007 American political thriller film directed by Gavin Hood, and starring Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Meryl Streep, Peter Sarsgaard, Alan Arkin and Omar Metwally. It centers on the controversial CIA practice of extraordinary rendition and is based on the true story of Khalid El-Masri , who was mistaken for Khalid al-Masri .
Oct 18, 2007 · The movie sets into motion a chain of events caused by the illegal kidnapping. Isabella, played by Witherspoon with single-minded determination and love, contacts an old boyfriend ( Peter Sarsgaard ) who is now an aide to a powerful senator ( Alan Arkin ).
Rendition is a 2007 American political thriller film directed by Gavin Hood and starring Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Meryl Streep, Peter Sarsgaard, Alan Arkin, and Omar Metwally. It centers on the controversial CIA practice of extraordinary rendition and is based on the true story of Khalid El-Masri, who was mistaken for Khalid al-Masri.
Oct 19, 2007 · Rendition: Directed by Gavin Hood. With Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon, Meryl Streep, Alan Arkin. When a terrorist bombing in North Africa kills 19 incl. an American, an Egyptian chemical engineer flying from South Africa to his wife in USA, is arrested upon arriving USA. He disappears.
After a terrorist bombing kills an American envoy in a foreign country, an investigation leads to an Egyptian who has been living in the United States for years and who is married to an American. He is apprehended when he's on his way home.
Rendition. Inciting Event: After a Muslim terrorist group unintentionally kills a CIA operative in a suicide bombing, Egyptian immigrant Anwar comes under suspicion and is covertly arrested by the CIA upon returning to Washington, DC, from a conference in South Africa.
Oct 19, 2007 · Rendition. Directed by Gavin Hood. Drama, Thriller. R. 2h 2m. By A.O. Scott. Oct. 19, 2007. Given the tenor of political discussion these days, it is inevitable that someone with a loud voice and...
The word rendition means, among other things, to “hand over.” It can refer to criminals being transferred from one country to another through deportation or extradition, but it can also mean to hold people and question them on foreign soil—where pesky prisoners’ rights issues won’t get in the way.
Oct 22, 2007 · He's shackled and interrogated briefly by a government bureaucrat (J.K. Simmons) before being tossed on a plane to North Africa and a dungeon-like detention facility where he is stripped, beaten,...
Oct 19, 2007 · Isabella El-Ibrahimi (Reese Witherspoon), the wife of an Egyptian engineer, tries desperately to track down her husband after he disappears on an international...
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