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The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes uncovers an assassination plot with unsettling origins.
Theatrical
Nov 23, 2005
Box Office
$94.0M
Budget
$50.0M
Return
1.9x
DVD / Blu-ray
Jun 20, 2006
Director
Producers
Music
Studio
Participant, 4M, Section Eight, FilmWorks, MID Foundation, Warner Bros. Pictures
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See all →Intense Confrontation Over Torture and Beliefs
Mussawi
Bob, what do you know about the torture methods used by the Chinese on the Falun Gong? Huh? Method number one. What's your guess? Water dungeon. Did you guess water dungeon? Number two method? Number two, twisting arm and putting face in feces. Not interested in two. Number three. Number three is called pulling nails from fingers'. What do you think Bob? Number three sound good to you? The purpose is to get the monks or whatever to recant their beliefs. What if I had to get you to recant? That would be pretty difficult right? Because if you have no beliefs to recant then what? Then you're fucked is what. You're going to give me the names of every person who's taken money from you. Oh that is disgusting.
[pause; rips off one of Bob's nails]
Bob Barnes
Come on Jimmy, you're not one of those Koran thumpers!
Mussawi
My name is Mussawi. You fucking fuck, fucking fuck, stupid fuck, what the fuck, this is a war! Fuck you're a PO fucking W! Give me the fucking names! I'm cutting his fucking head off. I'm going to cut your head off, Bob!
[rips off another nail, then starts punching Bob]
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Moral Dilemmas in Personal Profit and Loss
Bryan Woodman
Do you understand what that means, it's like someone put a giant ATM on our front lawn.
Julie Woodman
Here's a question. How do you think it looks to profit off the death of your six year old?
Bryan Woodman
(pause) Fuck you.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Cast
Full credits →G
George Clooney
Bob Barnes
M
Matt Damon
Bryan Woodman
J
Jeffrey Wright
Bennett Holiday
C
Chris Cooper
Jimmy Pope
A
Amanda Peet
Julie Woodman
W
William Hurt
Stan
C
Christopher Plummer
Dean Whiting
A
Alexander Siddig
Prince Nasir Al-Subaai
K
Kayvan Novak
Arash
A
Amr Waked
Mohammed Sheik Agiza
R
Robert Foxworth
Tommy Barton
N
Nicky Henson
Sydney Hewitt
N
Nicholas Art
Riley Woodman
S
Steven Hinkle
Max Woodman
D
Daisy Tormé
Rebecca
P
Peter Gerety
Leland "Lee" Janus
R
Richard Lintern
Bryan's Boss
J
Jocelyn Quivrin
Vincent
S
Shahid Ahmed
Saleem Ahmed Khan
R
Roger Yuan
Chinese Engineer
