 Rendition
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Meryl Streep, Alan Arkin, Peter Sarsgaard, Christian Martin
Directed by: Gavin Hood
Screenplay by: Kelley Sane
Release Date: October 19, 2007
MPAA Rating: R for torture / violence and language.
Studio: New Line Cinema
 Domestic: $9,736,045 (36.6%)
Foreign: $16,898,910 (63.4%)
Total: $26,634,955 (Worldwide)
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 Tagline: What if someone you love... just dissapeared?
Isabella El-Ibrahimi (Reese Witherspoon), the wife of an Egyptian engineer, tries desperately to track down her husband after he disappears on an international flight. Meanwhile, a CIA analyst's (Jake Gyllenhaal) world spins out of control as he witnesses the engineer's unorthodox interrogation at the hands of secret police.
Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon, Alan Arkin, Peter Sarsgaard and Meryl Streep head an all-star ensemble cast in Rendition, a compelling thriller from director Gavin Hood (director of the Academy Award-winning film, Tsotsi) which takes a provocative look at the complex political issues surrounding the U.S. government's policy of "extraordinary rendition" - abducting foreign nationals deemed a threat to national security for detention and interrogation in secret overseas prisons.
Rendition was filmed in Los Angeles and Washington DC, Marrakech, Morocco and Cape Town, South Africa.
Screenwriter Kelley Sane first decided to write Rendition after a lively debate with his friend, Mark Martin, about the American government's little-known policy of "extraordinary rendition," which allows for the abduction of foreign nationals, deemed to be a threat to national security, for detention and interrogation in secret overseas prisons.
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