Body of Lies (2008)


Leonardo DiCaprio       Roger Ferris
Russell Crowe           Ed Hoffman
Vince Colosimo          Skip
Clara Khoury            Bassam's Wife
Oscar Isaac             Bassam
Mark Strong             Hani
Golshifte Farahani      Aisha
Simon McBurney          Garland
Ali Suliman             Omar Sadiki
Alon Abutbul (II)       Al-Saleem
Mehdi Nebbou            Nizar
Michael Gaston          Holiday
Kais Nashif (II)        Mustafa Karami
Lubna Azabal            Aisha s Sister Cala
Giannina Facio          Hoffman’s Wife
Michael Stuhlbarg       Ferris’ Attorney

Directed by:            Ridley Scott
Produced by:            Michael Costigan, Charles J.D. Schlissel


A CIA operative, Roger Ferris, uncovers a lead on a major terrorist leader suspected to be operating out of 
Jordan. When Ferris devises a plan to infiltrate his network, he must first win the backing of cunning CIA 
veteran Ed Hoffman and the collegial, but perhaps suspect, head of Jordanian intelligence. Although ostensibly 
his allies, Ferris questions how far he can really trust these men without putting his entire operation--and 
his life--on the line.

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Roger Ferris is a CIA operative in the Middle East; Ed Hoffman is his control at Langley. Cynicism is everywhere. 
In Amman, Roger works with Hani Salaam, Jordan's head of security, whose only dictum is "Don't lie to me." The 
Americans are in pursuit of a cleric who leads a group placing bombs all over Europe. When Hani rebukes Ed's 
demand that Jordan allow the Americans to use one of Jordan's double agents, Roger and Ed hatch a plan to bring 
the cleric to them. The plan is complicated by its being a secret from Hani and by Roger's attraction to a local 
nurse. Satellites and cell phones, bodies and lies: modern warfare.

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United State's Central Intelligence Agency's Middle East Representative, Roger Ferris, is based in Amman, Jordan, 
and is keeping a watch on a 'safe house' and believes it to be frequented by young Muslim males. He has information 
that Al Saleem may be behind terrorist attacks, but lacks any evidence to apprehend him or any of his associates. 
His plan to implicate Dubai-based Architect, Omar Sadiki, not only fails, his Iranian girlfriend, Aisha, gets 
abducted, and he must decide whether to surrender himself to her abductors to negotiate her release or leave her 
to their mercy.

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Roger Ferris (Leonardo DiCaprio) is the best man US intelligence has on the ground, in places where human life is 
worth no more than the information it can get you. In operations that take him around the globe, Ferris' next 
breath often depends on the voice at the end of a secure phone-line - CIA veteran Ed Hoffman (Russell Crowe).
Waging war from a laptop in the suburbs, Hoffman is on the trail of an emerging terrorist leader who has 
orchestrated a campaign of bombings while eluding the most sophisticated intelligence network in the world. To 
lure the terrorist out into the open, Ferris will have to penetrate his murky world. But the closer he gets to 
the target, the more he discovers that trust is both a dangerous commodity and the only thing that will get him 
out alive.