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User Rating:
6.5/10   554 votes
Director:
Sidney Lumet
Writer (WGA):
Tom Fontana (written by)
Release Date:
27 April 2004 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
Strip Search follows several parallel stories examining personal freedoms vs. national security in the aftermath of 9/11; two main subplots involve an American woman detained in China and an Arab man detained in New York City. | add synopsis
NewsDesk:
Interview: Ken Leung on "Year of the Fish" (From IFC. 27 August 2008, 11:00 AM, PDT)
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Titles are Pointless more

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)

Austin Pendleton ... James Perley
Tom Guiry ... Gerry Sykes
Fred Koheler ... Jimmy Briggs
Zack Manzella ... High School Boy
Daniel May Wong ... Arresting Officer

Maggie Gyllenhaal ... Linda Sykes

Ken Leung ... Liu Tsung-Yuan
Jim Gaffigan ... Reverend Craig Peterson
Bruno Lastra ... Sharif Bin Said

Glenn Close ... Karen Moore

Dean Winters ... Ned McGrath

Caroline Kava ... Alvira Sykes

Peter Jacobson ... John Scanlon
Anahid ... Aaisha Bin Said
Raymond Anthony Thomas ... Clerk (as Ray Anthony Thomas)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
Germany:86 min | USA:120 min | 56 min (re-cut)
Country:
USA
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Company:
HBO Films more

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23 out of 26 people found the following comment useful:-
Titles are Pointless, 5 May 2004
10/10
Author: thefishgopher from Austin, Texas

This movie was quite a profound piece of work. It involved a very unique process of film making in which the same screenplay was used to tell two different stories. This process is supposed to invoke in the viewer that the viewer shows sympathy for one character but not for another. When I watched it I consciously knew that it was the same words being spoken but then yet I did not understand why I felt sympathy for one character but not for the other speaking the same words. This is a very good movie to watch in the post 9/11 world in which the way America treats the rest of the world. Quite frankly I believe Americans(I being one of them) do not treat the rest of the world with enough respect and we disregard any of their thoughts. This movie shows the American viewer how a foreigner might see America. This movie totally blew me away. It is dumbfounding.

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