On January 23, 2002, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is to fly from Karachi to Dubai with his pregnant wife, Mariane, also a reporter. On the day before, with great care, he has arranged an interview in a café with an Islamic fundamentalist cleric. When Danny doesn't return, Mariane initiates a search. Pakistani police, American embassy personnel, and the FBI examine witnesses, phone records, e-mails, and hard drives. Who has him? Where is he? There's also the why: because of U.S. abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo, because of a history of Journal cooperation with the CIA, because Pearl is a Jew? Through it all, Mariane is clearheaded, direct, and determined.
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Initially, the film was financed by Warner Brothers. After it backed out, Paramount Vantage stepped in.
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Goofs
Revealing mistakes:
In the scene when Mariane is going for interview with CNN, the car stops at the signal. The place where they stops is not in Karachi, it is in Rawalpindi, approximately 1500 kilometers away from Karachi.
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Quotes
Captain:
[after the two men have just watched a man be tortured]
Are you okay? Randall Bennett:
[smiling nervously]
Yeah. Captain:
We'll go easy on this next guy. He's a jihadi, spent time in Afghanistan. And he's a police officer. Randall Bennett:
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