Rendition (film)

Rendition
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Gavin Hood
Written by	Kelley Sane
Produced by	Steve Golin David Kanter Keith Redmon Michael Sugar Marcus Viscidi
Starring	Jake Gyllenhaal Reese Witherspoon Peter Sarsgaard Alan Arkin Meryl Streep Omar Metwally Igal Naor Moa Khouas Zineb Oukach
Cinematography	Dion Beebe
Edited by	Megan Gill
Music by	Paul Hepker Mark Kilian
Production companies	Level 1 Entertainment Anonymous Content
Distributed by	New Line Cinema
Release dates	September 7, 2007 (2007-09-07) (TIFF) October 19, 2007 (2007-10-19) (United States)
Running time	122 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$27.5 million[1]
Box office	$27 million[2]

Rendition is a 2007 American political thriller film directed by Gavin Hood, and starring Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Meryl Streep, Peter Sarsgaard, Alan Arkin and Omar Metwally. It centers on the controversial CIA practice of extraordinary rendition and is based on the true story of Khalid El-Masri, who was mistaken for Khalid al-Masri.