Rendition

2007 · 120 min · EN · R · 6.4 (739 votes)

Dir. Gavin Hood · Starring Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Meryl Streep, Alan Arkin, Peter Sarsgaard, Omar Metwally · Music Paul Hepker

“What if someone you love... just disappeared?”

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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.

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This film feels like a suffocating descent into the moral abyss of geopolitical conflict. It's a tense, harrowing experience, steeped in despair and the chilling reality of state-sanctioned inhumanity. The atmosphere is heavy with dread, forcing a confrontation with uncomfortable truths about justice and personal sacrifice in a world of shadows.

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