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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
  • Argo
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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
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