Traitor (film)
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| Directed by | Jeffrey Nachmanoff |
| Produced by |
Don Cheadle David eHoberman Todd Lieberman Jeff Silver Ashok Amritraj Arlene Gibbs Kay Lieberman Steve Martin Richard Schlesinger |
| Screenplay by | Jeffrey Nachmanoff |
| Story by | Steve Martin Jeffrey Nachmanoff |
| Starring | Don Cheadle Guy Pearce |
| Music by | Mark Kilian |
| Cinematography | J. Michael Muro |
| Edited by | Billy Fox |
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| Distributed by |
Overture Films (US) Paramount Pictures (Australia/Netherlands/France) |
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Release date
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August 27, 2008 |
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Running time
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114 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English Arabic |
| Budget | $22 million |
| Box office | $27,640,957 |
Traitor is a 2008 American spy thriller film, based on an idea by Steve Martin who is also an executive producer. It is written and directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff and stars Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce in the lead roles.
Samir Horn (Don Cheadle) is an Arabic-speaking Sudanese-American and devout Muslim. His Sudanese father was killed by a car bomb when he was a child. As an adult, Samir is first seen operating as an arms dealer. While negotiating a deal with Omar (Saïd Taghmaoui) in Yemen he is arrested and thrown into a Yemeni jail. Later, Samir and Omar become friends and when Omar's people arrange an escape, he takes Samir with them. They meet Fareed (Alyy Khan), a lieutenant in the al-Nathir terrorist organization. FBI Special Agent Roy Clayton (Pearce) suspects Samir has been radicalized and begins tracking him.
Joining al-Nathir, Samir uses the skills he learned as a Special Forces Engineer Sergeant with the U.S. Army Special Forces to bomb the U.S. consulate in Nice, France. It is revealed that Samir is working under deep cover for a US intelligence contractor, Carter (Jeff Daniels); Samir is devastated when he learns that despite Carter's covert efforts, innocent people perished in the consulate bombing. Impressed with Samir, Fareed introduces him to leader Nathir, who discloses a plot to place suicide bombers on 50 buses in the U.S. during Thanksgiving, and instructs Samir to act as liaison to each of the al-Nathir bombers. Later, Carter unwittingly interrupts a meeting between Samir and Omar, and is killed by Omar.
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