The film is anchored by a stellar ensemble cast of veteran character actors: as Tony Mendez Bryan Cranston as Jack O'Donnell, Mendez’s CIA supervisor
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Reviewers from sites like Rotten Tomatoes (96% score) and Metacritic (86/100) hailed it as a "tense, exciting, and finely wrought" thriller. Legendary critic Roger Ebert gave it four stars, calling it the best film of the year. Fact vs. Fiction The film is anchored by a stellar ensemble
Realizing the six would eventually be caught and executed, Mendez collaborated with Oscar-winning makeup artist John Chambers (John Goodman) and producer Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin) to create a "paper trail" for the fake movie—including ads in Variety and a formal press launch—to convince Iranian authorities that the group was merely a Canadian film crew. Cast and Key Performances Fiction Realizing the six would eventually be caught