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Rendition (2007)
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Gavin Hood, whose "Tsotsi" became the first film from the former Apartheid state to win an Academy Award, will make his Hollywood debut directing first-time screenwriter Kelley Sane's multi-layered story centering on a CIA analyst based in Cairo who finds his world spinning out of control after he witnesses the interrogation of a foreign national by the Egyptian secret police. Witherspoon has been tapped to play Isabella El-Ibrahim, the pregnant American wife of an Egyptian-born chemical engineer whose family emigrated to the States in the mid 1980s, who is shipped off to a third world country for interrogation after he is deemed a political prisoner in our post-9/11 world.
| Release Date: | October 19th, 2007 |
| Running Time: | 120 minutes |
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| Written By: |  | Kelley Sane |
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Rendition Movie Review by Tim  (2/21/2008) |
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I'm going to talk about the good first. By far the best actor in this film is Yigal Naor....he is very strong with his performance and I am really excited to see more work for him in the future. He reminds me of the next Sir Ben Kingsley..
Peter Sarsgaard usually gets on my nerves but I started to like him in this...
(complete Rendition review by Tim)
| Rendition Movie Review by Matthew (10/29/2007) |
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Anwar El-Ibrahimi (Omar Metwally) finishes a business conference in Johannesburg. As he gets in the cab for the airport, he realizes he missed a call on his cell phone from a private number. He calls his pregnant wife, Isabella (Reese Witherspoon), back in Chicago, who is playing a game of soccer with their son. Anwar's...
(complete Rendition review by Matthew)
| Rendition Movie Review by Chris (1/24/2009) |
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'Rendition' is a very tough film to understand for about the first 20 minutes or so, our introduction to characters is very quick and the plot is utterly confusing. I admit that I kinda lost interest in the film about a half hour in, then we found out who these peolple are and their roles in the movie. The movie mainly...
(complete Rendition review by Chris)
It is impossible to comment on this movie without being political. It is a political movie and the fact that you like it or do not like it is an indication of your stance.
It is a movie. Do not forget that. However, it is certain that the characters in this movie have real counterparts in Washington today. There are those...
(complete Rendition review by Movie Addict)
| Rendition Movie Review by Jarrod (10/22/2007) |
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'Rendition' comes from Gavin Hood, whose last movie was Tsotsi, which won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film, about a young criminal in South Africa whose life changes drastically once he finds himself caring for a baby. This time, Hood tackles a more controversial and provocative subject, the practice of rendition, which...
(complete Rendition review by Jarrod)
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