Rendition (film)
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| Directed by | Gavin Hood |
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Steve Golin David Kanter Keith Redmon Michael Sugar Marcus Viscidi |
| Written by | Kelley Sane |
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Jake Gyllenhaal Reese Witherspoon Peter Sarsgaard Omar Metwally with Alan Arkin and Meryl Streep |
| Music by |
Paul Hepker Mark Kilian |
| Cinematography | Dion Beebe |
| Edited by | Megan Gill |
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| Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
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122 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $27.5 million |
| Box office | $27 million |
Rendition is a 2007 American abduction thriller film directed by Gavin Hood and starring Reese Witherspoon, Meryl Streep, Peter Sarsgaard, Alan Arkin, Jake Gyllenhaal 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. The movie also has similarities to the case of Maher Arar.
CIA analyst Douglas Freeman (Jake Gyllenhaal) is briefing a newly arrived CIA agent in a square in an unnamed country in North Africa (filmed in Marrakech), when a suicide attack kills the CIA agent and 18 other people. The target was a high-ranking police official, Abbas-i "Abasi" Fawal (Yigal Naor), who acts as a liaison for the United States and whose tasks include conducting interrogations and overseeing the application of techniques amounting to torture. Fawal escapes unscathed.
Egyptian-born Anwar El-Ibrahimi (Omar Metwally), a chemical engineer who lives in Chicago with his mother, his pregnant wife Isabella (Reese Witherspoon) and their young son, is linked to a violent organization by telephone records indicating that known terrorist Rashid placed several calls to Anwar's cellphone. Returning to the United States from a conference in South Africa, he is detained by American officials and sent to a secret detention facility near the location of the suicide attack depicted earlier, where he is interrogated and tortured. Isabella is not informed and all records of his being on the flight from South Africa are erased, although records remain of his boarding the plane at Cape Town International Airport and making a purchase en route.
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