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.
November 23, 2005
Released
Syriana
2h 8min
$50,000,000
$93,974,620
Arabic, English, Persian, Urdu, French, Mandarin
Participant4MSection EightFilmWorksMID FoundationWarner Bros. Pictures