Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Jake Gyllenhaal | ... | Douglas Freeman | |
Reese Witherspoon | ... | Isabella Fields El-Ibrahimi | |
Meryl Streep | ... | Corrine Whitman | |
Alan Arkin | ... | Senator Hawkins | |
Peter Sarsgaard | ... | Alan Smith | |
Omar Metwally | ... | Anwar El-Ibrahimi | |
Igal Naor | ... | Abasi Fawal | |
Hadar Ratzon Rotem | ... | Safiya (as Hadar Ratzon) | |
J.K. Simmons | ... | Lee Mayer | |
Simon Abkarian | ... | Said Abdel Aziz | |
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Moa Khouas | ... | Khalid El-Emin |
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Zineb Oukach | ... | Fatima Fawal |
Aramis Knight | ... | Jeremy El-Ibrahimi | |
Rosie Malek-Yonan | ... | Nuru El-Ibrahimi | |
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Laila Mrabti | ... | Lina Fawal |
After a terrorist bombing kills an American envoy in a foreign country, an investigation leads to an Egyptian who has been living in the United States for years and who is married to an American. He is apprehended when he's on his way home. The U.S. sends him to the country where the incident occurs for interrogation, which includes torture. An American C.I.A. operative observes the interrogation and is at odds whether to keep it going or to stop it. In the meantime, the man's wife raises hell to find him, but the person behind this refuses to help or give her any information. Written by rcs0411@yahoo.com
Rendition presents a very topical matter in the form of a very tense thriller. It's a gripping, and not a preaching, movie. Seeing it in an Arab country with a mixture of Arabian and European audience gave it an extra level of atmosphere. The audience was totally gripped by the film and gave it a loud applause afterwards. The story of an Egyptian, married to an American, picked up on the suspicion of links to terrorist organizations and shipped to a friendly (with US) Arab country for "enhanced interrogation (as Meryl Streep's character states in the film: "we have no torture in the US") seems to be from the front page of todays news. There is a very neat link between the various characters which appear in the movie and the pace of the film never drops. The movies'message seems to be (as stated by Jake Gyllenhal's character in the film) that by abducting and torturing suspects you create many more terrorists. The acting is uniformly excellent with Streep and Reese Witherspoon the stand outs. Not to be missed.