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Syriana
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Drama, Thriller - 2005
Syriana
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The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes uncovers an assassination plot with unsettling origins.
Director:
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Stephen Gaghan
Cast:
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William Hurt
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Christopher Plummer
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George Clooney
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Matt Damon
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Jeffrey Wright
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Chris Cooper
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Amanda Peet
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Alexander Siddig
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Kayvan Novak
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Amr Waked

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Runtime:
128 min
Release date:
23 Nov 2005
Country:
US
Languages:
Arabic, English, Persian (Farsi), Urdu, French, Chinese
Budget:
$50,000,000
Revenue:
$93,974,620
Awards:
Won 1 Oscar. 13 wins & 30 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
This is intelligent, committed, and politically provocative, though its narrative puzzle box may prompt you to throw up your hands and let ExxonMobil go on running the world.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
30 Mar 2009
fresh:
Its dark, dog-eat-dog vision of the world we live in may give you geopolitical nightmares.
– David Ansen,
Newsweek,
1 Nov 2007
rotten:
Evidently, such matters of thematic coherence, so well explored by Gaghan in Traffic, were not as important to him this time around, and it's a mistake.
– Joshua Rothkopf,
Time Out New York,
16 Aug 2007
rotten:
It's entirely possible that Gaghan just isn't an actor's director.
– Stephanie Zacharek,
Salon.com,
7 Oct 2006
fresh:
Syriana impresses, not because it is very moving, which it isn't, or because it is crystal clear, which it also isn't, but because it is so large, so encompassing, so seemingly privy to inside stuff.
– Stanley Kauffmann,
The New Republic,
3 Jan 2006
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