Strip Search (film)

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Strip Search
Directed by	Sidney Lumet
Produced by	Mark A Baker Irene Burns
Written by	Tom Fontana
Starring	Glenn Close Maggie Gyllenhaal Ken Leung Bruno Lastra Dean Winters
Music by	Paul Chihara
Cinematography	Ron Fortunato
Editing by	Tirsa Hackshaw Tom Swartwout
Release date(s)	April 27, 2004
Running time	120 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
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Strip Search is a film made for the HBO network, first aired in April 27, 2004 at 9:30 p.m. (ET/PT). The film explores the precarious status of individual liberties in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks and the approval of the USA PATRIOT Act. The film was directed by the acclaimed Sidney Lumet and written by Oz creator Tom Fontana. It stars Glenn Close, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ken Leung, Bruno Lastra and Dean Winters. The film was first screened at the Monaco Film Premiere with Sidney Lumet in person presenting it, in the presence of writer Tom Fontana [1].

[edit] Plot

The film is built around two main parallel stories, each containing almost identical dialogues. One story line involves Linda Sykes (Maggie Gyllenhaal), an American woman detained in the People's Republic of China, being interrogated by a military officer (Ken Leung). In the other storyline, Sharif Bin Said (Bruno Lastra), an Arab man detained in New York City, is interrogated by two FBI agents (Dean Winters and Glenn Close). Both characters are graduate students detained with no hard evidence and interrogated about unspecified activities which may be related to terrorist plots. As implied by the title, the characters of Sykes and Bin Said are strip-searched against their will by their interrogators. In both cases the protagonists appear to have only tenuous connections with the suspected terrorist plots.

The film ends with the question: "Must security and safety come at the price of freedom?"

[edit] Cast

• Glenn Close... FBI Agent Karen Moore
• Maggie Gyllenhaal... Linda Sykes
• Bruno Lastra... Sharif Bin Said
• Dean Winters... FBI Agent Ned McGrath
• Ken Leung.... Liu Tsung-Yuan

[edit] External links

• Strip Search at the Internet Movie Database
• Strip Search at HBO.com

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