Redacted (film)

Redacted
Theatrical release poster
Directed byBrian De Palma
Written byBrian De Palma
Produced byJason Kliot
Simone Urdl
Joana Vicente
Jennifer Weiss
Starring
  • Zahra Alzubaidi
  • Ty Jones
  • Kel O'Neill
  • Daniel Stewart Sherman
  • Izzy Diaz
  • Rob Devaney
  • Patrick Carroll
CinematographyJonathon Cliff
Edited byBill Pankow
Distributed byMagnolia Pictures[1]
Release dates
  • August 31, 2007 (2007-08-31) (Venice Film Festival)
  • November 16, 2007 (2007-11-16) (United States)
Running time
90 minutes
CountriesUnited States
Canada
LanguageEnglish
Budget$5 million[2]
Box office$782,102[3]

Redacted is a 2007 American war film written and directed by Brian De Palma. It is a fictional dramatization, loosely based on the 2006 Mahmudiyah killings in Mahmoudiyah, Iraq, when U.S. Army soldiers raped an Iraqi girl and murdered her along with her family. This film, which is a companion piece to an earlier film by De Palma, Casualties of War (1989), was shot in Jordan.[4]

Redacted premiered at the 2007 Venice Film Festival, where it earned a Silver Lion Best Director award.[5] It was also shown at the Toronto International Film Festival, the New York Film Festival and the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema. The film opened in Spain, and in fifteen theaters in limited release in the United States on November 16, 2007. The film received mixed reactions from critics[1] and a poor financial response in its limited U.S. release.[6][7]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference tomatoes was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Redacted (2007) - Financial Information". The-numbers.com. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  3. ^ "Redacted". Boxofficemojo.com.
  4. ^ Aloisi, Silvia (2007-08-31). ""Redacted" stuns Venice". Reuters. Retrieved 2007-08-31.
  5. ^ Jason Solomons (2007-09-09). "Brutal Iraq film is Venice hit: Award for real-life story of rape by US soldiers". The Guardian. London.
  6. ^ Iraq war atrocity film Redacted bombs in US, The Daily Telegraph, Nov. 28, 2007.
  7. ^ Joe Garofoli (2007-11-23). "Iraq war is hell on the bottom line at the box office". San Francisco Chronicle.