What if someone you love... just disappeared?
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
Cast |
Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Alan Arkin, Meryl Streep, J.K. Simmons, Omar Metwally |
Director |
Gavin Hood |
Screenplay | Kelley Sane |
Music | Paul Hepker, Mark Kilian |
Cinematography | Dion Beebe |
Editing | Megan Gill |
Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
Soundtrack | Available |
Made in | 2007 |
Produced by | Anonymous Content, Dune Films, Level 1 Entertainment, MID Foundation, New Line Cinema |
Official Site | IMDB page | ScreenIt Report
Trailer: Small | Medium | Large
Genre | Drama, thriller |
Language | Mild to strong, fairly frequent |
Nudity | None |
Sex | None |
Violence | Psychological and physical violence, mildly bloody, not graphic |
Prejudice | Religious prejudice, infrequent, in context |
Blasphemy | None |
Drug abuse | None |
Comments | None |
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Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
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Frightening / Tense Scenes |
Jump Scenes |
Tense Family Scenes |
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Topics to talk about |
Scale (Max) | 20 | |
What the Critics say | ||
Cape Argus / The Star Zane Henry Let's hope his next film has claws. | 5 | |
Die Burger Jeanne Hugo Elegante dog effens oppervlakkige drama. | 10 | |
Cape Times Carina Chocano Everyone has a chance to shine in star-filled drama. | 10 | |
The Citizen Natalie Bosman This is a film that will get you thinking, a rarity in itself, which makes it worth watching. | 14 | |
Sunday Times Barry Ronge A film of high quality that deserves to be widely seen. | 10 | |
24.com Megan Kakora In the end, Rendition is a moving film that is sure to shake up dinner table debates and force you examine which North your moral compass points to. | 15 | |
BBC Jamie Russell Given the controversial nature of the subject it deals with, Rendition is a surprisingly bland issue movie. | 5 | |
Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert It is a movie about the theory and practice of two things: torture and personal responsibility. And it is wise about what is right, and what is wrong. | 20 | |
eye Weekly Adam Nayman The script pays lip service to its subjects' ambiguities, but takes pains to point out who's good (Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon as the abductee's American wife), bad (terrorists) and ugly (Meryl Streep, doing a Dirty South variation on her Manchurian Candidate role). | 5 | |
ReelViews James Berardinelli Much as I might like to, I cannot heap praise upon director Gavin Hood's Rendition, a political thriller with aspirations of being so much more that it is. | 10 | |
ScreenIt Decent but not great | 10 | |
Metacritic.com 34 critics | 11 | |
Rottentomatoes critics 134 critics | 11 | |
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Explores complex issues in woefully simplified terms. | 9 | |
What the People say | ||
Internet 2662 Netizens Perhaps the most important film of the year | 13 | |
Average .. 53% | 11 |