Rendition
(DVD) 

Special features: optional audio commentary by director Gavin Hood; "Outlawed" documentary on the practice of extraordinary rendition (28 min.); "Intersections: the making of Rendition" (30 min.); deleted/alternate scenes with optional audio commentary by Gavin Hood (19 min.); theatrical trailer (3 min.).

Director of photography, Dion Beebe ; editor, Megan Gill ; music, Paul Hepker, Mark Kilian ; costume designer, Michael Wilkinson ; production designer, Barry Robison.

Jake Gyllenhaal, Omar Metwally, Reese Witherspoon, Peter Sarsgaard, Yigal Naor, Moa Khouas, Zineb Oukach, Alan Arkin, Meryl Streep.

The policy of "extraordinary rendition" began under the Clinton administration and accelerated after September 11, 2001. The policy allows for the handing over of suspected terrorists to countries that use torture as an interrogation tool. Anwar El-Ibrahimi is an Egyptian-born man who disappears on a flight from Africa to Washington, DC. He is sent to a North African country where torture is practiced and the CIA gives approval. Anwar's pregnant American-born wife wants to know what happened to her husband. A reluctant CIA agent begins to question his assignment after witnessing an unorthodox interrogation. A severe interrogator plies his trade on Anwar while a U.S. terrorism honcho is willing to turn a blind eye to the unpleasantness, especially if it stops a terrorist attack.

MPAA rating: R; for torture/violence and language.

DVD-9 ; region 1 ; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound, stereo surround sound.

In English, with optional English or Spanish subtitles.

Closed-captioned.