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.

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
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...