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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 8 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 20, 2006
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | George Clooney & Amanda Peet | |
Performer: | Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright, Chris Cooper, William Hurt, Tim Blake Nelson, Christopher Plummer & Alexander Siddig | |
Directed by | Stephen Gaghan | |
Edited by | Tim Squyres | |
Screenwriting by | Stephen Gaghan | |
Composition by | Alexandre Desplat | |
Produced by | Jennifer Fox & Michael Nozik | |
Director of Photography: | Robert Elswit | |
Executive Production by | Georgia Kacandes, George Clooney, Steven Soderbergh, Ben Cosgrove & Jeff Skoll |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 2005 -
Best Supporting Actor: George Clooney
Entertainment Reviews:
4 stars out of 5 -- SYRIANA is brain-achingly complex yet still deeply, deeply human.
Total Film
Syriana is an American movie that reaches out beyond itself. Watching it made me feel hopeful -- a rare sensation in a cinema.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
A film that treats its audience as adults, this is an extremely rewarding work that handsomely pays off the concentration required to watch it.
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Film4
3 stars out of 4 -- [D]ensely packed with detail and convincingly told.
Premiere
[A] movie that demands and rewards close attention....[O]ne of the best geopolitical thrillers in a very long time.
New York Times
Rating: 4/5 --
You'll come away exhausted, but also exhilarated.
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BBC.com
Rating: 3/5 --
I'm hard-pushed to think of a more cynical and self-critical American picture, and one that so radically and empathetically portrays the genesis of Islamic suicide bombers.
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Patrick Nabarro
Product Description:
Stephen Gaghan, who won an Oscar for best screenplay for TRAFFIC, makes his directorial debut with SYRIANA, an espionage thriller set in the Middle East. George Clooney stars as Bob Barnes, a longtime CIA agent preparing to slow down his life and spend more time with his teenage son (Max Minghella). But his last secret mission, getting rid of Prince Nasir (Alexander Siddig), turns out to be more complicated than he imagined, placing him in the middle of a dangerous conspiracy involving government corruption, oil, and international terrorism. Matt Damon, who starred with Clooney in OCEAN'S ELEVEN and OCEAN'S TWELVE (and made a cameo in Clooney's CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND, which was also about spies and conspiracies), plays Bryan Woodman, an energy executive whose ethics become vulnerable after the horrific loss of one of his sons. Meanwhile, in Washington, D.C., lawyers Bennett Holiday (Jeffrey Wright) and Dean Whiting (Christopher Plummer) also must choose between the government's special interests and what's best for the world (as well as their own special interests). Gaghan gives SYRIANA a documentary-like feel, using handheld cameras and shooting on location, adding to the believability of the complex plot. To heighten the realism, Clooney learned to speak Arabic and even put on 30 pounds for the role. A fast-paced, heart-pounding, relentless film, SYRIANA was inspired by the true story of former CIA agent Robert Baer, told in his book SEE NO EVIL: THE TRUE STORY OF A GROUND SOLDIER IN THE CIA'S WAR ON TERRORISM.
Description by Warner Home Video:
Syriana
Big oil means big money. Very big money. And that fact unleashes corruption that stretches from Houston to Washington to the Mideast--and ensnares industrialists, princes, spies, politicos, oilfield laborers and terrorists in a deadly, deceptive web of move and countermove. This lightning-paced, whip-smart action thriller grips your mind and nerves with an intensity that doesn't let go for an instant.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 112,316
- UPC: 012569807716
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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