Traitor (film)

Infobox Film
name = Traitor


caption = Movie poster
director = Jeffrey Nachmanoff
producer = Don Cheadle,
David Hoberman,
Todd Lieberman,
Jeff Silver,
Ashok Amritraj,
Arlene Gibbs,
Kay Lieberman,
Steve Martin
writer = Steve Martin "(story)"
Jeffrey Nachmanoff "(screenplay)"
narrator =
starring = Don Cheadle
Guy Pearce
Said Taghmaoui
Jeff Daniels
Neal McDonough
music = Mark Kilian
music = Mark Kilian
cinematography =
editing =
distributor =
released =
runtime =
country = U.S.
language = English
budget =
gross =
website =
amg_id = 1:407736
imdb_id = 0988047

"Traitor" is a 2008 spy thriller film, based on an idea by Steve Martin (who is also an executive producer), and written and directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff. The film stars Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce.

Plot

Samir Horn (Cheadle), an Arabic-speaking Sudanese American and devout Muslim, is an arms dealer. While negotiating a deal with Omar (Saïd Taghmaoui) in Yemen he is arrested and thrown into jail. Samir and Omar become close in jail and when his people arrange an escape, he takes Samir with them.

Joining Omar's terrorist group, Samir uses the skills he learned in the U.S. Army Special Forces to bomb the U.S. embassy in Nice, France. The group then devises a plot to place suicide bombers on 50 buses in the U.S. during Thanksgiving.

FBI agent Roy Clayton (Pearce) of the FBI pursues Samir in numerous countries, resulting in their final confrontation in Halifax, Canada. Unbeknownst to the FBI, Samir was in deep cover for the US.

Production

The project was in development since 2002, and was originally set to be produced by Walt Disney Pictures, but was dropped due to management change. But it was picked up by Overture Films. Principal photography started in early September, 2007, in Toronto and Morocco. [cite journal |last=Kit |first=Boris |year=2007 |month=July |title=Cheadle, Pearce go undercover |journal=The Hollywood Reporter |date=July 11, 2007 |pages=p. 1, p.18 |issn=0018-3660 |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3icd7a8b9fe00edd2d0d78d52add6a9ee4 |accessdate=2007-07-12]

Critical Reception

As of September 19, 2008, Rotten Tomatoes records a 52% positive rating, while Metacritic compiles a 71% rating based on 115 reviews.

References

External links

* [http://www.traitor-themovie.com/ Official website]
*imdb title|0988047|Traitor
* [http://www.vidly.net/traitor-movie-trailer.html Traitor Trailer]
* [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10009243-traitor/ Rotten Tomatoes]