• Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 08/27/2008
  • Running Time: 110 mins
  • Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff
  • Cast: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Neal McDonough, Jeff Daniels, Archie Panjabi, Saïd Taghmaoui, Simon Reynolds, Jonathan Walker, Lorena Gale, Mozhan Marnò
  • Producer: David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman, Don Cheadle, Jeffrey Silver
  • Writer: Steve Martin, Jeffrey Nachmanoff, Jeffrey Silver
  • Distributor: Overture Films
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Box Office

  1. Quantum of Solace, 67.5 million, 67.5 million
  2. The Dark Knight, 26.1 million, 441.6 million
  3. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, 35.0 million, 116.9 million
  4. Pineapple Express, 23.2 million, 41.3 million
  5. Role Models, 11.2 million, 37.6 million
  6. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 16.5 million, 71.0 million
  7. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, 10.7 million, 19.6 million
  8. High School Musical 3: Senior Year, 5.7 million, 84.2 million
  9. Step Brothers, 9.1 million, 81.1 million
  10. Changeling, 4.3 million, 27.6 million
  11. Mamma Mia!, 8.2 million, 104.1 million
  12. Zack and Miri, 3.1 million, 26.5 million
  13. Journey to the Center of the Earth, 4.9 million, 81.8 million
  14. Soul Men, 2.4 million, 9.4 million
  15. The Secret Life of Bees, 2.3 million, 33.6 million
  16. Hancock, 3.3 million, 221.7 million
  17. Saw V, 1.8 million, 55.4 million
  18. WALL-E, 3.1 million, 210.2 million
  19. Beverly Hills Chihuahua, 1.6 million, 90.9 million
  20. Swing Vote, 3.1 million, 12.0 million
Movie Title, Weekly Earnings, Total Earnings

Traitor

In its well-written first hour, writer-director Jeffrey Nachmanoff's thriller hops nimbly across continents, juxtaposing terror-cell intrigue with moments of self-reflection from FBI men and bad guys alike. Traitor's man on the run is Samir Horn (Don Cheadle), an American-born mercenary who at age nine witnessed his Sudanese Muslim father being blown to bits in a Middle Eastern car-bomb explosion. The culprits are unknown, but years later, Samir is in Yemen, selling Semtex explosives to jihadists. Samir has a tendency to stare off into the distance—a Cheadle specialty—mulling over, perhaps, his time as a U.S. Special Forces soldier, a job (and a country) that he turned his back on after a tour of duty in Afghanistan led him to become an Islamic fundamentalist. The movie's first hour is well-done, but realism and insight go out the window as soon as Samir crosses the U.S. border—oh so easily—to set in motion one last big terror plot, a plan that actually calls to mind the scheme from Don Siegel's far superior 1977 thriller Telefon, in which a rogue KGB agent travels across America activating deep-cover Russian agents. Nachmanoff has devised a nifty last-minute twist to the concept, but he appears to take little pleasure in the telling—almost if he's embarrassed to be having fun with a subject as serious as terror. Creating an ingenious mad bomber isn't quite the thrill it used to be. — Chuck Wilson

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