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• Thriller
• Documentary

• 2012
• Ben Affleck
• 120 mins
• 15

Summary

Thriller based on a true story, starring Ben Affleck. CIA agent Tony Mendez goes under cover as a Hollywood producer to smuggle six Americans out of Iran. With time running out, Mendez must assemble a convincing cover by creating a fake film production, with the help of Hollywood bigwig John Chambers, before their targets are found and executed.

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Damon Wise

A true story that involves the CIA, Hollywood and the anti-American regime of Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini shouldn't be as seamless as this gripping, beautifully performed and often very funny but dramatic thriller. The year is 1979 and the US embassy in Tehran has been stormed, with many of its workers taken hostage. However, six have fled, and are being secretly sheltered by the Canadian ambassador (Victor Garber), but time is running out. The CIA has exhausted every avenue, including a feeble plan to whisk them out on bicycles, so when "exfiltration" expert Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck) suggests disguising them as a film crew and scouting locations for a Star Wars rip-off, it seems as good an idea as any. Alan Arkin and John Goodman are superb as the operation's jaded Tinseltown connections in a terrific story that deftly offsets tension with comedy. The excellent screenplay also examines the nature of storytelling and resolves the conflict, for once, with coolness and clarity.

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7.7/10

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Cast

rolenameTony MendezBen AffleckLester SiegelAlan ArkinJohn ChambersJohn GoodmanJack O'DonnellBryan CranstonKen TaylorVictor GarberBob AndersTate DonovanJoe StaffordScoot McNairyCora LijekClea DuVallLee SchatzRory CochraneMark LijekChristopher DenhamKathy StaffordKerry BishéMalinovChris MessinaHamilton JordanKyle ChandlerNinaAdrienne BarbeauRobert PenderZeljko IvanekJon BatesTitus WelliverCyrus VanceBob GuntonJack KirbyMichael Parks

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rolenameDirectorBen Affleck

Details

Theatrical distributor

Warner Bros Entertainment UK Ltd

Released on

2012-11-02

Languages

English | Arabic | German | Persian

Guidance

Swearing

Available on

DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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