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.

• DirectorStephen Gaghan
• Release23 November 2005
• Genre
  Drama / Thriller
• Duration2h 8m
• Budget$50,000,000
• Revenue$93,974,620
• Rate
  

  6.42
  1411 reviews
• Productions

  Participant, 4M, Section Eight, FilmWorks, MID Foundation, Warner Bros. Pictures