Directed by:
Ben AffleckScreenplay:
Chris TerrioCinematography:
Rodrigo PrietoComposer:
Alexandre DesplatCast:
Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Victor Garber, Tate Donovan, Clea DuVall, Scoot McNairy, Rory Cochrane, Christopher Denham, Kerry Bishé (more)Plots(1)
When militants seize control of the U.S. embassy in Tehran during the height of the Iranian Revolution, CIA agent Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck) creates a fake Hollywood production in order to fool the terrorists into releasing a group of U.S. diplomats in this Warner Bros. docudrama based on actual events. (official distributor synopsis)
Cast
Ben Affleck
USA
Best movies:
Le Destin de Will Hunting (1997)
Les Apparences (2014)
The Last Duel (2021)
Bryan Cranston
USA
Best movies:
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Detachment (2011)
The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)
Alan Arkin
USA
Best movies:
Wait Until Dark (1967)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
John Goodman
USA
Best movies:
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Cars (2006)
Victor Garber
Canada
Best movies:
Titanic (1997)
Dark Waters (2019)
Argo (2012)
Tate Donovan
USA
Best movies:
The Holdovers (2023)
Argo (2012)
Hercules (1997)
Clea DuVall
USA
Best movies:
21 Grams (2003)
Zodiac (2007)
Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Scoot McNairy
USA
Best movies:
Les Apparences (2014)
Godless (2017) (series)
The Comey Rule (2020) (series)
Rory Cochrane
USA
Best movies:
The Company (2007) (series)
Hostiles (2017)
Argo (2012)
Christopher Denham
Best movies:
Shutter Island (2010)
Oppenheimer (2023)
Argo (2012)
Kerry Bishé
USA
Best movies:
Argo (2012)
Newlyweds (2011)
The Lucky Ones (2008)
Kyle Chandler
USA
Best movies:
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Argo (2012)
North and South (1985) (series)
Chris Messina
USA
Best movies:
Argo (2012)
Rounders (1998)
You've Got Mail (1998)
Željko Ivanek
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Dogville (2003)
Titus Welliver
USA
Best movies:
Lost: The Final Journey (2010) (TV movie)
The Doors (1991)
Gone, Baby, Gone (2007)
Keith Szarabajka
USA
Best movies:
The Dark Knight (2008)
A Perfect World (1993)
Into the West (2005) (series)
Bob Gunton
USA
Best movies:
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
JFK (1991)
Dolores Claiborne (1995)
Richard Kind
USA
Best movies:
Cars (2006)
Toy Story 3 (2010)
Inside Out (2015)
Richard Dillane
Best movies:
The Dark Knight (2008)
Endeavour (2012) (series)
Wolf Hall (2015) (series)
Omid Abtahi
Iran
Best movies:
Argo (2012)
Brothers (2009)
The Last Lullaby (2008)