Rendition

Gavin Hood, whose became the first film from the former Apartheid state to win an Academy Award, makes his Hollywood debut directing first-time screenwriter Kelley Sane’s multi-layered story, “Rendition,” centering on a CIA analyst based in Cairo who finds his world spinning out of control after he witnsses the interrogation of a foreign national by the Egyptian secret police. Witherspoon has been tapped to play Isabella El-Ibrahim, the pregnant American wife of an Egyptian-born chemical engineer whose family emigrated to the States in the mid 1980s, who is shipped off to a third world country for interrogation after he is deemed a political prisoner in our post-9/11 world. “Rendition” stars three Oscar winners – Meryl Streep, Reese Witherspoon and Alan Arkin, as well as Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal.