Rendition (2007) - The A.V. Club

Cast

Reese Witherspoon (Isabella Fields El-Ibrahimi)Jake Gyllenhaal (Douglas Freeman)Peter Sarsgaard (Alan Smith)Alan Arkin (Senator Hawkins)Meryl Streep (Corrine Whitman)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 El-Emin)Zineb Oukach (Fatima Fawal)Aramis Knight (Jeremy El-Ibrahimi)Rosie Malek-Yonan (Nuru El-Ibrahimi)Laila Mrabti (Lina Fawal)David Fabrizio (William Dixon)Mounir Margoum (Rani)Driss Roukhe (Bahi)

Director

Gavin Hood

Synopsis

When a terrorist bombing in North Africa kills 19 incl. an American, an Egyptian chemical engineer flying from South Africa to his wife in USA, is arrested upon arriving USA. He disappears. His wife asks senator for help.