This serious, intelligent political thriller about jihadists and America's war on terror represents a dramatic change from writer-director Jeffrey Nachmanoff's only other produced feature screenplay, the cartoonish DAY AFTER TOMORROW (2004).
Born in Sudan, Samir Horn (Don Cheadle) was 12 when he saw his devoutly religious father die in a car bombing -- the affiliation of his killers is unclear, and Samir's mother fled to Chicago and raised her son in an inner-city housing project. Thirty years later, Samir is rootless, restless and apparently without political convictions. Fluent in Arabic and accorded the freedom conferred by an American passport, he's arr...
Released:
2008
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
110 mins