Traitor (2008)

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Movie Info

Genre

Thriller

Release Date

August 27, 2008

MPAA Rating

PG-13

Studio

Overture Films

Official Site

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Cast and Crew

Director

Jeff Nachmanoff

Producer

Don Cheadle, David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman, Jeffrey Silver

Screenwriter

Jeff Nachmanoff

Starring

Don Cheadle as Samir Horn
Guy Pearce as Roy Clayton
Jeff Daniels as Carter
Neal McDonough
Archie Panjabi
Alyy Kahn
Said Taghmaoui

Movie Story

Academy Award nominee Don Cheadle ("Hotel Rwanda," "Crash") and Guy Pearce ("Memento," "L.A. Confidential") star in "Traitor," a taut international thriller set against a jigsaw puzzle of covert counter-espionage operations. "Traitor" is written and directed by Jeff Nachmanoff (Screenwriter of "The Day After Tomorrow").

When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton (Guy Pearce) heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations Officer, Samir Horn (Don Cheadle). A mysterious figure with a web of connections to suspect organizations, Horn has a knack for emerging on the scene just as a major operation goes down.

The inter-agency task force looking into the case meets with Carter (Jeff Daniels), a veteran CIA contractor who seemingly has his own agenda and Max Archer (Neal McDonough), a fellow FBI agent. The task force links Horn to a bombing in Nice and a raid in London, but a tangle of contradictory evidence emerges, forcing Clayton to question whether his quarry is a man without loyalties--or something far more complicated.

Obsessed with discovering the truth, Clayton tracks Horn across the globe as the elusive ex-soldier burrows deeper and deeper into a world of shadows and intrigue.