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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Reese Witherspoon
Isabella Fields El-Ibrahimi
Jake Gyllenhaal
Douglas Freeman
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
J.K. Simmons
Lee Mayer
Simon Abkarian
Said Abdel Aziz
Director
Gavin Hood
Tagline
"What if someone you love... just disappeared?"
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$27,500,000
Revenue
$24,748,670
Production
Anonymous Content, Level 1 Entertainment, MID Foundation
CinemaSerf
December 28, 2025
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 happen to originate in the West. That’s what happens to Egyptian-born engineer “Anwar” (Omar Metwally) wh...
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