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Body of Lies

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Release date: October 5, 2008 More »


Director: Ridley Scott

Cast:

  • Leonardo DiCaprio as Roger Ferris
  • Russell Crowe as Ed Hoffman
  • Mark Strong as Hani Salaam
  • Golshifteh Farahani as Aisha
  • Oscar Isaac as Bassam
  • Ali Suliman as Omar Sadiki
  • Alon Abutbul as Al-Saleem (as Alon Aboutboul)
  • Vince Colosimo as Skip
  • Simon McBurney as Garland
  • Mehdi Nebbou as Nizar
  • Michael Gaston as Holiday
  • Kais Nashif as Mustafa Karami
  • Jamil Khoury as Marwan (as Jameel Khoury)
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About:

Roger Ferris is one of the CIA's soldiers in the war on terrorism. After an injury ends a tour of duty in Iraq, Ferris is assigned an intense espionage mission in Jordan--to infiltrate the cell of a master terrorist known only as al-Saleen. In order to get inside al-Saleen's network, Ferris hatches a dangerous and elaborate scheme: he creates an imaginary Jihadist in the guise of an innocent Arab architect with no known terrorist ties, who appears to be the leader of a rival cell. By sowing these seeds of deception, Ferris hopes to flush out al-Saleen, drawing him to the bogus organization--and right into the arms of the CIA. Before setting his manipulative plan in motion, Ferris must win the backing of a cynical CIA veteran, Ed Hoffman, and a wily, urbane but suspect Jordanian intelligence office, Hani Salaam. But can Ferris trust either of these men who appear to be his allies in the war on terrorism?

Producer: Zakaria Alaoui, Michael Costigan, Donald De Line, Charles J.D. Schlissel, Ridley Scott

Writers: William Monahan, David Ignatius