| Release Date |
September 28th, 2007 |
| Director |
Peter Berg |
| Writer |
Matthew Michael Carnahan |
| Actors |
Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner,
Jason Bateman, Jeremy Piven, Danny Huston, Richard Jenkins,
Ashraf Barhoum, and Ali Suliman |
| Studio |
Universal Pictures |
| Tickets |
Fandango |
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In the aftermath of a deadly attack on American forces in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, diplomats are slow to act, but meanwhile, FBI special agent Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx) assembles a secret team of U.S. counter-terrorism investigators to enter the city and find the criminal behind what has quickly become an international incident.
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One of the most respected character actors of our
time, Chris Cooper (Grant
Sykes) was recognized in 2003 with an Academy Award® and a Golden
Globe Award for
Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of John Laroche in Columbia
Pictures’
Adaptation., written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Spike Jonze.
The film, loosely
based on Susan Orlean’s book “The Orchid Thief,” follows
a sexually frustrated
screenwriter’s attempt to adapt Orlean’s anecdotal book
for the screen. Cooper was also
recognized for his performance in this film by numerous critics associations,
including
the Broadcast Film Critics, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association
and Toronto Film
Critics Association.
Cooper will soon be seen in the upcoming film Marriage, an independent
film
starring Pierce Brosnan and Rachel McAdams. Recently, the actor was
seen in the Sony
Classics film Capote, with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Catherine Keener,
as Alvin
Dewey. Cooper played the lead investigator in charge of the high-profile
murders in
Kansas that were the basis of Truman Capote’s classic book “In
Cold Blood.” The film
premiered at the Toronto Film Festival to rave reviews and, shortly
thereafter, at the New
York Film Festival.
Cooper was recently seen in Universal Pictures’ thriller Breach,
with Ryan
Phillippe and Laura Linney, starring as infamous spy Robert Hanssen.
He also had a
strong supporting role in 2005’s Jarhead, for director Sam
Mendes and Universal
Pictures, and Syriana, for writer/director Stephen Gaghan and Warner
Bros.
In 2004, Cooper was seen in Newmarket Film’s Silver City, a
political drama and
murder mystery that chronicled the story of a small town in Colorado
and the events
leading up to a local election. Written and directed by John Sayles,
the impressive cast
included Maria Bello, Thora Birch, Richard Dreyfuss, Tim Roth, Daryl
Hannah and Billy
Zane. The film was screened at the Toronto Film Festival.
In 2003, Cooper starred in Universal Pictures’ Seabiscuit,
based on the bestselling
book. Cooper was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild award for his
portrayal of
Seabiscuit’s trainer, Tom Smith. Seabiscuit was directed by
Gary Ross and also starred
Tobey Maguire and Jeff Bridges. In the same year, Cooper was nominated
for an Emmy
Award for his supporting performance in the HBO film My House in
Umbria, starring
Maggie Smith.
In 2002, Cooper was seen in Universal Pictures’ The Bourne
Identity, in a strong
supporting role as the mastermind of the CIA’s controversial
clandestine operation
Treadstone. In 2004, he appeared in flashback scenes in the second
installment, The
Bourne Supremacy.
In 2000, Cooper portrayed Col. Burwell, opposite Mel Gibson, in Sony
Pictures’
The Patriot, a Revolutionary War epic directed by Roland Emmerich.
In the same year,
Cooper appeared with Jim Carrey in the comedy Me, Myself & Irene,
for directors Peter
and Bobby Farrelly.
In 1999, Cooper received a Screen Actors Guild award for his supporting
performance alongside Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening in DreamWorks’ Academy
Award®-winning film American Beauty. In a stunning and dramatic
display, Cooper
portrayed a stern ex-Marine colonel who persistently monitored his
son’s every move.
In 1999, Cooper also starred as the father of an amateur rocket enthusiast
in the
acclaimed coming-of-age drama October Sky, which was screened with
great notice at
the 1999 Venice and Deauville film festivals. He had previously earned
a Best Actor
nomination in 1997 from the Independent Spirit Awards for his work
in John Sayles’
Lone Star. Nearly a decade earlier, Cooper made his feature-film
debut in Sayles’
Matewan.
Among his other film credits are Robert Redford’s The Horse
Whisperer, Great
Expectations, A Time to Kill, Money Train, This Boy’s Life,
Guilty by Suspicion and City
of Hope.
On the small screen, he has had roles in a number of long-form projects,
including
the miniseries Lonesome Dove and Return to Lonesome Dove. He starred
in HBO’s
Breast Men and includes among his other credits Alone, One More Mountain,
Ned
Blessing, Bed of Lies, Darrow, In Broad Daylight, A Little Piece
of Sunshine, Law &
Order and Journey Into Genius.
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Cooper attended the University of
Missouri
School of Drama and started his professional career on the New York
stage. His theater
credits include Of the Fields Lately on Broadway, The Ballad of Soapy
Smith and A
Different Moon.
Cooper resides in Massachusetts.
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