“Eight strangers. Eight points of view. One truth,” thunders the poster for this tricksy thriller about the attempted assassination of the US President (William Hurt) during a summit in Spain. Like Rashomon through a sniper scope, each characters’ view of the shooting and subsequent terrorist bombing dovetails together as British helmer Pete Travis (Omagh) regularly rewinds the action to show us that what we thought was true wasn’t and what we thought was lies was truth. Or something...

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Film Details

12A
UK Theatrical Release Date: Mar 7th 2008
Genre
- Drama,
- Thriller
Starring
Director
- Pete Travis
Screenplay
- Barry Levy

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