The Debt (2011) - Movie Details

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Release Date:	August 31, 2011
On DVD:	December 6, 2011
Genre:	Drama, War
Director:	John Madden
Writer:	Matthew Vaughn, Jane Goldman
Cast:	Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain, Jesper Christensen, Marton Csokas, Ciarán Hinds, Tom Wilkinson
Studio:	Miramax Films
Official site:	focusfeatures.com/the_debt
Running Time:	113 minutes
MPAA Rating:	Rated R for some violence and language

In this espionage thriller, shocking news reaches retired Mossad secret agents Rachel (Academy Award winner Helen Mirren) and Stefan (two-time Academy Award nominee Tom Wilkinson) about their former colleague David (Ciarán Hinds). Back in 1966, the trio (portrayed, respectively, by Jessica Chastain, Marton Csokas, and Sam Worthington [“Avatar,” “Clash of the Titans”]) tracked down Nazi war criminal Vogel (Jesper Christensen) in East Berlin. At great risk, and at considerable personal cost, the team’s mission was...

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From director John Madden comes the espionage thriller The Debt, a superbly acted tale of three Mossad agents who are assigned to capture a Nazi war criminal responsible for torturing and murdering thousands of Jews during the war. Engaging and powerful, The Debt is Madden's best movie since Shakespeare in Love, but the film's lack of a cohesive theme keeps it from greatness.

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