Rendition (2007)

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Studio: New Line Cinema
Release Date: Oct 19, 2007
Running Time: 122 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Douglas Freeman, a CIA analyst based in North Africa, is forced to question his assignment after he witnesses the brutal and unorthodox interrogation of an Egyptian-American by secret North African police. Anwar El-Ibrahimi is the Egyptian-American chemical engineer whose family emigrated to the States when he was a boy, now suspected of a terrorist act. His pregnant wife, Isabella El-Ibrahimi, does everything in her power to find her missing husband, who has seemingly disappeared during a flight from Cape Town, South Africa to Washington, DC, by enlisting the help of a politically-connected college friend, Alan Smith. Alan, an aide to Senator Hawkins, uncovers the troubling fact that Anwar has been shipped off, on the orders of the CIA’s head of terrorism, Corrinne Whitman, to a third world country for interrogation. Abasi Fawal is the head of the secret prison who has personal problems of his own with a rebellious daughter Fatima and her Islamic fundamentalist boyfriend Khalid.
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Isabella Fields El-Ibrahimi
Anwar El-Ibrahimi
Douglas Freeman
Alan Smith
Senator Hawkins
Jeremy El-Ibrahim
Corrine Whitman
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Nuru El-Ibrahim
Senator Lewis’ Aide
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Rendition does its job in exposing an obvious flaw in the war against terrorism. But in trying to stir your soul, the low-energy film only manages to come off heavy-handed and manipulative.

Story

"Extraordinary rendition" is the very real practice of transporting terrorist suspects to a foreign country where they can be interrogated or held for the purpose of gathering intelligence or to face trial. In other words, it's a way to torture someone into confessing terrorist connections. And as the… Continued