A missile disappears in Iran, but the CIA has other problems: the heir to an Emirate gives an oil contract to China, cutting out a US company that promptly fires its immigrant workers and merges with a small firm that has landed a Kazakhstani oil contract. The Department of Justice suspects bribery, and the oil company's law firm finds a scapegoat. The CIA also needs one when its plot to kill the Emir-apparent fails. Agent Bob Barnes, the fall guy, sorts out the double cross. An American economist parlays the death of his son into a contract to advise the sheik the CIA wants dead. The jobless Pakistanis join a fundamentalist group. All roads start and end in the oil fields.
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English|Urdu (some dialogue with English subtitles, some without) |Arabic (some dialogue with English subtitles, some without) |Persian (some dialogue) (English Subtitles) |French (a few words) (English subtitles) |Mandarin (only a few words)
When George Clooney meets his son at Princeton University, he's actually in front of Sellinger Hall at Loyola College in Maryland.
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Goofs
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers):
Early in the film, a news reader with a British accent says "one hundred thirty". They should have said "one hundred and thirty." The "and" is usually omitted in non-British English.
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Quotes
[first lines]
Arash:
Bobby, where have you been? See more »
Crazy Credits
(Closing statement)
While inspired by a non-fiction work, this motion picture and all of the characters and events portrayed in it (except for incidental archival footage), are fictional.
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