Syriana (2005)
Everything is connected.
128 min
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.
- Release date
- November 23, 2005
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $50,000,000
- Box office
- $93,974,620
Trailer
Cast
- George Clooney as Bob Barnes
- Matt Damon as Bryan Woodman
- Amanda Peet as Julie Woodman
- Kayvan Novak as Arash
- Amr Waked as Mohammed Sheik Agiza
- Christopher Plummer as Dean Whiting
- Jeffrey Wright as Bennett Holiday
- Chris Cooper as Jimmy Pope
- Robert Foxworth as Tommy Barton
- Nicky Henson as Sydney Hewitt
Crew
- Stephen Gaghan · Director
- Stephen Gaghan · Writer
- Robert Baer · Writer
- Jennifer Fox · Producer
- Georgia Kacandes · Producer
- Michael Nozik · Producer
- Alexandre Desplat · Composer
- Robert Elswit · Cinematographer
- Tim Squyres · Editor
- Avy Kaufman · Casting director
- Lora Kennedy · Casting director
- Lucinda Syson · Casting director
- Dan Weil · Production designer