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Rendition

Name: Rendition
Released: 2007-09-07T00:00:00.000000Z
Rating: 6.4

What if someone you love... just disappeared?

2007 • 120 min • ★ 6.4 (745) • Released

Drama Thriller

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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Original title: Rendition
Language: EN
Country: US
Budget: $27,500,000
Revenue: $24,748,670

Reviews & Ratings 1

CinemaSerf

Dec 28, 2025 · via TMDB

★ 6.0

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) who is travelling home to his wife (Reese Witherspoon) in the States when he is “diverted” on the instructions of “Whitman” (Meryl Streep) to a dark and unholy place where he is stripped of his clothes and his dignity, then questioned about a recent bombing atrocity - all under the watchful eye of “Freeman” (Jake Gyllenhaal) who is clearly torn between loyalty to his country and his own sense of human decency. Meantime, as you might expect, the wife of the captive man - completely unaware of his whereabouts, raises the issues with her senator (Alan Arkin) via his aide “Smith” (Peter Sarsgaard) but they seem more preoccupied with the optics of appearing to be on the wrong side of public opinion than they are about finding this man. Now of course there is the slightest of chances that “Anwar” does know something, but it’s about as remote as the source of the Amazon and the question quickly becomes more about the internecine game of political chess being played by all sides in this game with scant regard for a man whom in Metwally is easily the most convincing actor on the screen. To be fair to it, this film does begin quite promisingly with the arbitrary exercise of power making a mockery of any thoughts of democratic oversight, but Gyllenhaal is nowhere near his best and neither is the underused Witherspoon who seems uncertain as to just how she wants to play the part of the terrified, pregnant, wife. It’s conclusion is all a bit rushed, but it does show just how duplicitous and Machiavellian people can be when there are laws both within and outside the law - it's just a shame that wasn’t explored more fully.

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Keywords 23

american anti terror central intelligence agency (cia) civil rights cruelty despair government hijacking inhumanity intelligence kidnapping loss of loved one plo terrorist group police brutality politician politics senator surveillance terror cell terrorism torture torturing police war on terror

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Cast 38

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

Moa Khouas

Khalid

Zineb Oukach

Fatima Fawal

Aramis Knight

Jeremy El-Ibrahimi

David Fabrizio

William Dixon

Mounir Margoum

Rani

Driss Roukhe

Bahi

Bob Gunton

Lars Whitman

Del Hunter-White

DC Female Security Guard

Reymonde Amsallem

Layla Fawal

Wendy Phillips

Samantha

Christian Martin

Senator Lewis' Aide

Hassam Ghancy

Hamadi

Najib Oudghiri

Omar Adnan

Omar Salim

Rashid Salimi

Bunnie Rivera

Corinne's Housekeeper

Anne Betancourt

Sharon Lopez

Skylar T. Adams

CIA Agent at DC Airport

Richard Dorton

CIA Agent at DC Airport

Floella Benjamin

CIA Staffer

Michael Dube

Cape Town Businessman

Pope Jerrod

Cape Town Businessman

Craig Johnson

Capitol Hill Police

Steve Tom

Reception Guest

Robert Clotworthy

Reception Guest

Muna Otaru

Senate Staffer

Nick Toth

CNN Announcer

Marina Anderson

Neighbor with Collie (uncredited)

Paul Hodge

Capitol Hill Officer (uncredited)

Crew 15

Carol Kiefer

Art Department Coordinator

Dion Beebe

Director of Photography

Michael Wilkinson

Costume Design

Fríða Aradóttir

Hairstylist

Chad Tyler

Stand In

Alisa Hensley

Stunts

Heidi Pascoe

Stunts

Gavin Hood

Director

Francine Maisler

Casting

Bill Todman Jr.

Executive Producer

Toby Emmerich

Executive Producer

Marcus Viscidi

Producer

Michael Sugar

Producer

Steve Golin

Producer

Mark Kilian

Original Music Composer

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US Release Dates 1

Sep 7, 2007

R Theatrical