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Syriana: Directed by Stephen Gaghan. With Kayvan Novak, George Clooney, Amr Waked, Christopher Plummer. A politically charged epic about the state of the oil industry in the hands of those personally involved in and affected by it.
- (135K)
- Drama, Thriller
- Stephen Gaghan
- 2005-12-09
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Ambitious, complicated, intellectual, and demanding of its audience, Syriana is both a gripping geopolitical thriller and wake-up call to the complacent. Syriana is an American movie that...
- (198)
- Stephen Gaghan
- R
- George Clooney
Inspired by See No Evil, a 2002 memoir by former CIA operative Robert Baer, Syriana follows Bob's complex moral dilemma. He's not a conventionally good man, but a desperate, dedicated, and eventually, broken one.
- Stephen Gaghan
- Cynthia Fuchs
- Amanda Peet, George Clooney, Matt Damon
Syriana received generally positive reviews, mostly for Clooney's performance and Gaghan's screenplay. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, it has a rating of 73% based on 198 reviews, with an average score of 6.89/10.
Nov 23, 2005 · From writer/director Stephen Gaghan, winner of the Best Screenplay Academy Award for "Traffic," comes Syriana, a political thriller that unfolds against the intrigues and corruption of the global oil industry.
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- Stephen Gaghan
- R
- George Clooney
Nov 23, 2005 · Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty.
Syriana, starring Matt Damon and George Clooney, reveals a possible honesty in foreign political corruption. The movie starts out a bit discombobulating, but the ending unleashes a truism in our society.
