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Rendition

(No longer in theaters)

Rating: R — for torture/violence and language
Director: Gavin Hood Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Meryl Streep, Alan Arkin, Robert Clotworthy
Running Time: 120 minutes
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Genre

Suspense/Thriller

Producer

Paul Schwake

Distributor

New Line Cinema

Release Date

Oct 19, 2007

Release Notes

Nationwide

Official Website

www.renditionmovie.com

Review

ï¿½It’s pure Hollywood, but the humanism gets to you.ï¿½ So says David Edelstein, considering this story of an Egypt-born U.S. resident who gets snatched up and tortured by the CIA as a terror suspect. We’d settle for pure Hollywood, but this sounds like our kind of humanism, highlighted by Reese Witherspoon, who plays the poor guy’s pregnant wife: She’s ï¿½very touching as she waddles around knocking on doors and fixing people with her ice-blue stare.ï¿½ (Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, and Meryl Streep also show up.)