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Call Number: DVD00427

by Steve Golin; Marcus Viscidi; Kelley Sane; Gavin Hood; Jake Gyllenhaal; Reese Witherspoon; Peter Sarsgaard; Omar Metwally; Yigal Naor; Moa Khouas; Zineb Oukach; Alan Arkin; Meryl Streep; New Line Cinema Corporation.; Level 1 Entertainment (Firm); Anonymous Content (Firm); New Line Home Entertainment (Firm); Warner Home Video (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Burbank, CA : New Line Home Entertainment : Warner Home Video, 2008, ©2007.

Notes: Originally released in 2007 (122 mins.); Special features: optional audio commentary by director Gavin Hood; “Outlawed” documentary on the practice of extraordinary rendition (28 min.); “Intersections: the making of Rendition” (30 min.); deleted/alternate scenes with optional audio commentary by Gavin Hood (19 min.);

Summary: The policy of “extraordinary rendition” began under the Clinton administration and accelerated after September 11, 2001. The policy allows for the handing over of suspected terrorists to countries that use torture as an interrogation tool. Anwar El-Ibrahimi is an Egyptian-born man who disappears on a flight from Africa to Washington, DC. He is sent to a North African country where torture is practiced and the CIA gives approval. Anwar’s pregnant American-born wife wants to know what happened to her husband. A reluctant CIA agent begins to question his assignment after witnessing an unorthodox interrogation. A severe interrogator plys his trade on Anwar while a U.S. terrorism honcho is willing to turn a blind eye to the unpleasantness, especially if it stops a terrorist attack.

OCLC #: 182523153