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Release Date:
27 August 2008 (USA) moreTagline:
The truth is complicated. morePlot:
When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn. full summary | full synopsisAwards:
5 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(88 articles)
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thoroughly enjoyed the film moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Don Cheadle | ... | Samir Horn | |
| Guy Pearce | ... | Roy Clayton | |
| Saïd Taghmaoui | ... | Omar | |
| Neal McDonough | ... | Max Archer | |
| Alyy Khan | ... | Fareed Mansour | |
| Archie Panjabi | ... | Chandra Dawkin | |
| Raad Rawi | ... | Nathir | |
| Hassam Ghancy | ... | Bashir | |
| Mozhan Marnò | ... | Leyla | |
| Adeel Akhtar | ... | Hamzi | |
| Jeff Daniels | ... | Carter | |
| Lorena Gale | ... | Dierdre Horn | |
| Scali Delpeyrat | ... | Inspector Gilles | |
| Mehdi Ortelsberg | ... | Ali | |
| Aizoun Abdelkader | ... | Ahmed |
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Rated PG-13 for intense violent sequences, thematic material and brief language.Parents Guide:
View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
114 minCountry:
USAColor:
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2.35 : 1 moreCertification:
Australia:M | USA:PG-13 (certificate #44487) | Canada:13+ (Québec) | Canada:14A (Alberta/Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) | Canada:PG (British Columbia) | Netherlands:12 | New Zealand:M | Singapore:M18 | Germany:12 | Czech Republic:15 | Norway:15 | Finland:K-13 | Ireland:15A | UK:12A | Portugal:M/12Fun Stuff
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The film was initially set up at Touchstone Pictures in 2002 but was put in turnaround following management change at The Walt Disney Company (which owns Touchstone) until it was picked up by Don Cheadle and Overture Films. moreGoofs:
Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Samir states that they can avoid having their e-mails traced by logging on to each suicide bomber's account, editing the e-mails with mission instructions and then saving them as drafts, this way there would be nothing transmitted on the network. Then the bombers would login to their accounts and read the draft e-mail. Others have suggested the activity over the network to access the web mail account could be tracked. However, connections to web mail accounts are encrypted (https). In addition, tracking what someone is doing from an Internet café on the web would result in a lot of noise with very little value. More high-value information comes from tracking email, which has a sender, a recipient, and is unencrypted (and therefore would trace the network for law enforcement). Saving the mail in drafts is a very good way to significantly reduce the likelihood of the communications being intercepted in time to be of value. moreQuotes:
Max Archer: [to Clayton] Look, you gotta be shittin' me. The US is gonna be attacked today and we just arrived at the ass end of Canada. moreMovie Connections:
Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Michael Phelps/Lil' Wayne (#34.1)" (2008) moreSoundtrack:
Laisse-Toi Aller moreFAQ
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i was lucky enough to be part of the "first audience" to catch this at a pre-screening, and i have to say that i really enjoyed this film. i don't know anything else i could really say. it was suspenseful, had great twists, the acting was superb, and was a great story. Don Cheatle was amazing as ever, but i don't want to give away any spoilers at all so i wont say anything about the characters. what i will say is that Jeff Daniels for sure needed more character development. of course Guy Pierce was great, and what came as a semi-surprise was Saïd Taghmaoui's performance. very well-done by the cast and if Steve Martin is really the man who came up with the idea, he needs to keep churning 'em out. Traitor was a fit name for the film, and i would recommend it to all of you reading this.
9 1/2 out of 10