Director: Gavin Hood Writer: Kelley Sane Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Meryl Streep, Alan Arkin, Peter Sarsgaard, Christian Martin Released: February 14, 2008 Rating: Runtime: 122 minutes Websites: Story: Gavin Hood, whose "Tsotsi" became the first film from the former Apartheid state to win an Academy Award, will make his Hollywood debut directing first-time screenwriter Kelley Sane's multi-layered story centering on a CIA analyst based in Cairo who finds his world spinning out of control after he witnesses the interrogation of a foreign national by the Egyptian secret police. Reese Witherspoon plays Isabella El-Ibrahim, the pregnant American wife of an Egyptian-born chemical engineer whose family emigrated to the States in the mid 1980s, who is shipped off to a third world country for interrogation after he is deemed a political prisoner in our post-9/11 world. Cast: Omar Metwally Anwar El-Ibrahimi Reese Witherspoon Isabella Fields El-Ibrahimi Aramis Knight Jeremy El-Ibrahimi Rosie Malek-Yonan Nuru El-Ibrahimi Jake Gyllenhaal Douglas Freeman Moa Khouas Khalid Zineb Oukach Fatima Fawal Yigal Naor Abasi Fawal Laila Mrabti Lina Fawal David Fabrizio William Dixon Mounir Margoum Rani Driss Roukhe Bahi J.K. Simmons Lee Mayer Meryl Streep Corrine Whitman Bob Gunton Lars Whitman