Rendition

When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside the US.

Cast

Reese Witherspoon

as Isabella Fields El-Ibrahimi

Jake Gyllenhaal

as Douglas Freeman

Meryl Streep

as Corrine Whitman

Alan Arkin

as Senator Hawkins

Peter Sarsgaard

as Alan Smith

Omar Metwally

as Anwar El-Ibrahimi

Igal Naor

as Abasi Fawal

Hadar Ratzon Rotem

as Safiya

J.K. Simmons

as Lee Mayer

Simon Abkarian

as Said Abdel Aziz

Reviews

CinemaSerf

I remember there were all sort of speculations about the CIA using rendition techniques around the time this was released, and I actually thought it could have been a powerful light to shine on an US government that tended to act with impunity when it suited it - especially if your name didn’t happe...

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