Additional information for Argo, which has a domestic theatrical release set for October 12, 2012. The film is being distributed by Warner Bros Pictures and has not yet been rated. Argo has a total running time of 120 minutes.
12
Hungary
R
USA
15
UK
15A
Ireland
PG13
Singapore
G
Japan
15
South Korea
PG
Canada
12
Netherlands
15
Sweden
11
Norway
M/12
Portugal
15
Denmark
PG-13
Philippines
14
Switzerland
A
India
M
Australia
14
Brazil
12
Germany
IIB
Hong Kong
13
Argentina
120min
130min
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A dramatization of the 1980 joint CIA-Canadian secret operation to extract six fugitive American diplomatic personnel out of revolutionary Iran.
Militants storm the U.S. embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979, in retaliation for the nation's sheltering the recently deposed Shah. More than 50 of the embassy staff are taken as hostages, but six escape and hide in the home of the Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor (Victor Garber). With the escapees' situation kept secret, the US State Department begins to explore options for "exfiltrating" them from Iran. Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck), a CIA specialist brought in for consultation, criticizes the proposals. He too is at a loss for an alternative until, inspired at home by watching Battle for the Planet of the Apes on TV with his son, he plans to create a cover story that the escapees are Canadian filmmakers, scouting "exotic" locations in Iran for a similar sci-fi film.Mendez and his supervisor Jack O'Donnell (Bryan Cranston) contact John Chambers (John Goodman), a Hollywood make-up artist who has previously crafted disguises for the CIA. Chambers puts them in touch with the film producer Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin). Together they set up a phony film studio, publicize their plans, and successfully establish the pretense of developing Argo, a "science fantasy" in the style of Star Wars, to lend credibility to the cover story. Meanwhile, the escapees grow frantic inside the ambassador's residence. The revolutionaries reassemble embassy papers shredded before the takeover and learn that some personnel have escaped.
Mendez meets a CIA agent at Istanbul's Haghia Sophia before going to Iran.Posing as a producer for Argo, Mendez enters Iran and links up with the six escapees. He provides them with Canadian passports and fake identities to prepare them to get through security at the airport. Although afraid to trust Mendez's scheme, they reluctantly go along with it, knowing that Mendez is risking his own life too, and convinced that it is their only option. A "scouting" visit to the bazaar to maintain their cover story takes a bad turn, but their Iranian culture contact gets them away from the hostile crowd.Mendez is told that the operation has been cancelled, to avoid conflicting with a planned military rescue of the hostages. He pushes ahead, forcing O'Donnell to hastily re-obtain authorization for the mission to get tickets on a Swissair flight. Tension rises at the airport, where the escapees' flight reservations are confirmed at the last minute, and a guard's call to the supposed studio in Hollywood is answered at the last second. The group boards the plane just as the Iranian guards uncover the ruse. As the 747 taxis down the runway, it is chased unsuccessfully by Iranian police cars. Mendez and the hostages breathe a sigh of relief as the plane leaves Iranian airspace.To protect the hostages remaining in Tehran from retaliation, all US involvement in the rescue is suppressed, giving full credit to the Canadian government and its ambassador (who left Iran with his wife under their own credentials as the operation was underway; their Iranian housekeeper, who had known about the Americans and lied to the revolutionaries to protect them, escaped to Iraq). Mendez is awarded the Intelligence Star, but due to the classified nature of the mission, he would not be able to keep the medal until the details were made public in 1997. All the hostages were freed on January 20, 1981. The film ends with President Jimmy Carter's speech about the Crisis and the Canadian Caper.
Ben Affleck
Director(s)
Chris Terrio
Tony Mendez
Joshuah Bearman
Writer(s)
Ben Affleck
producer
Chris Brigham
executive producer
Chay Carter
executive producer
George Clooney
producer
Tim Headington
executive producer
Amy Herman
co-producer
Grant Heslov
producer
Graham King
executive producer
David Klawans
executive producer
Alex Sutherland
line producer: Turkey
Nina Wolarsky
executive producer
Producer(s)
Alexandre Desplat
Composer(s)
Tony Mendez
Ben Affleck
Jack O'Donnell
Bryan Cranston
Lester Siegel
Alan Arkin
John Chambers
John Goodman
Ken Taylor
Victor Garber
Bob Anders
Tate Donovan
Cora Lijek
Clea DuVall
Joe Stafford
Scoot McNairy
Lee Schatz
Rory Cochrane
Mark Lijek
Christopher Denham
Kathy Stafford
Kerry Bishé
Hamilton Jordan
Kyle Chandler
Malinov
Chris Messina
Robert Pender
Zeljko Ivanek
Bates
Titus Welliver
Adam Engell
Keith Szarabajka
Cyrus Vance
Bob Gunton
Max Klein
Richard Kind
OSS Officer Nicholls
Richard Dillane
Reza Borhani
Omid Abtahi
Pat Taylor
Page Leong
Azizi Checkpoint #3
Farshad Farahat
Sahar
Sheila Vand
Elizabeth Ann Swift
Karina Logue
Sgt. Sickmann
Ryan Ahern
Alan B. Golacinski
Bill Tangradi
William J. Daugherty
Jamie McShane
Col. Charles W. Scott
Matthew Glave
Sgt. William Gallegos
Roberto Garcia
Thomas L. Ahern, Jr.
Christopher Stanley
Fred Kupke
Jon Woodward Kirby
Student with Poster
Alborz Basiratmand
Marine #1
Ruty Rutenberg
Marine #2
Michael Woolston
Lady with Radio
Sharareh Sedghi
Tear Gas Student
Bobby Zegar
Malick
Victor McCay
Peter Genco
Matt Nolan
Brice
J.R. Cacia
Hal Saunders
Bill Kalmenson
Argo
No theatrical release dates have been decided.
Director(s)
Tony Mendez
Joshuah Bearman
Writer(s)
producer
Chris Brigham
executive producer
Chay Carter
executive producer
George Clooney
producer
Tim Headington
executive producer
Amy Herman
co-producer
Grant Heslov
producer
Graham King
executive producer
David Klawans
executive producer
Alex Sutherland
line producer: Turkey
Nina Wolarsky
executive producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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