 The International
Starring: Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Brían F. O'Byrne, Ulrich Thomsen, Armin Mueller-Stahl
Directed by: Tom Tykwer
Screenplay by: Eric Singer
Release Date: February 20, 2009
MPAA Rating: R for some sequences of violence, language.
Studio: Columbia Pictures
 Domestic: $25,450,527 (49.1%)
Foreign: $26,391,327 (50.9%)
Total: $51,841,854 (Worldwide)
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 The plot centers on an obsessive Interpol agent (Owen) who spearheads an investigation into one of the world's most high-profile and powerful banking institutions in an attempt to expose them for worldwide arms brokering, corruption and murder. Watts will play a Manhattan assistant district attorney who partners with the agent to take down the bank.
In The International, a gripping thriller, Interpol Agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) are determined to bring to justice one of the world's most powerful banks.
Uncovering myriad and reprehensible illegal activities, Salinger and Whitman follow the money from Berlin to Milan to New York to Istanbul. Finding themselves in a high-stakes chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives at risk as their targets will stop at nothing - even murder - to continue financing terror and war.
Directed by Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run) from an original screenplay written by Eric Singer, The International is being shot on location in Germany and throughout Europe.
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