Release Date: 22 June 2007
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Genre: Biography | Drama | History
Stars: Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman and Irrfan Khan
Storyline: On January
23, 2002, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is to fly from
Karachi to Dubai with his pregnant wife, Mariane, also a reporter. On
the day before, with great care, he has arranged an interview in a café
with an Islamic fundamentalist cleric. When Danny doesn’t return,
Mariane initiates a search. Pakistani police, American embassy
personnel, and the FBI examine witnesses, phone records, e-mails, and
hard drives. Who has him? Where is he? There’s also the why: because of
U.S. abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo, because of a history of Journal
cooperation with the CIA, because Pearl is a Jew? Through it all,
Mariane is clearheaded, direct, and determined.
