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Argo
Year:
Duration:
120 min | 130 min (Extended Version)
Genres:
Drama | Thriller
IMDB rate:
7.8
Director:
Ben Affleck
Awards:
Won 3 Oscars. Another 92 wins & 117 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 2012-10-12
Filming Locations: McLean, Virginia, USA
Earnings
Budget: $44,500,000
Opening Weekend: $19,458,109 (USA) (14 October 2012)
Gross: $136,019,448 (USA) (21 April 2013)
Cast
Actor
Character
John Boyd
John Boyd
Argo
Ben Affleck
Tony Mendez
Bryan Cranston
Jack O'Donnell
Alan Arkin
Lester Siegel
John Goodman
John Chambers
Victor Garber
Ken Taylor
Tate Donovan
Bob Anders
Clea DuVall
Cora Lijek
Scoot McNairy
Joe Stafford
Rory Cochrane
Lee Schatz
Christopher Denham
Mark Lijek
Kerry Bishé
Kathy Stafford
Kyle Chandler
Hamilton Jordan
Chris Messina
Malinov
Zeljko Ivanek
Robert Pender
Titus Welliver
Bates
Keith Szarabajka
Adam Engell
Bob Gunton
Cyrus Vance
Richard Kind
Max Klein
Richard Dillane
OSS Officer Nicholls
Omid Abtahi
Reza Borhani
Page Leong
Pat Taylor
Farshad Farahat
Azizi Checkpoint #3
Sheila Vand
Sahar
Karina Logue
Elizabeth Ann Swift
Ryan Ahern
Sgt. Sickmann
Bill Tangradi
Alan B. Golacinski
Jamie McShane
William J. Daugherty
Matthew Glave
Col. Charles W. Scott
Roberto Garcia
Sgt. William Gallegos
Christopher Stanley
Thomas L. Ahern, Jr.
Jon Woodward Kirby
Fred Kupke
Alborz Basiratmand
Student with Poster
Ruty Rutenberg
Marine #1
Michael Woolston
Marine #2
Sharareh Sedghi
Lady with Radio
Bobby Zegar
Tear Gas Student
Victor McCay
Malick
Matt Nolan
Peter Genco
J.R. Cacia
Brice
Bill Kalmenson
Hal Saunders
Rob Brownstein
Landon Butler
David Sullivan
Jon Titterton
Jean Carol
Jordan's Secretary
Michael Cassidy
Jordan's Analyst
Yuri Sardarov
Rossi
Nikka Far
Tehran Mary
Aidan Sussman
Ian Mendez
Barry Livingston
David Marmor
Ali Saam
Ali Khalkhali
Araz Vahid Ebrahim Nia
Moradi
Scott Anthony Leet
The Minotaur
Ashley Wood
Space Lab Nurse
Rob Tepper
Film Director
Stephen J. Lattanzi
PA
Danielle Barbosa
Lester's Housekeeper
Eric Scott Cooper
Publicist
Adrienne Barbeau
Nina
Tom Lenk
Variety Reporter
Nelson Franklin
LA Times Reporter
Kelly Curran
Princess Aleppa
Mark Rhino Smith
Evil Villain
Bill Blair
Humanoid Robot
Daston Kalili
Green Jacket
Joseph S. Griffo
Nestor the Android
Andrew Varenhorst
Blue Monster
Amitis Frances Ariano
Persian Dancer
Alison Fiori
Sci Fi Body Suit Girl
Taies Farzan
Middle Class Iranian Woman
Rafi Pitts
Iranian Consulate Official
Allegra Carpenter
British Airways Flight Attendant
Bobby Naderi
Airport Husband
Ray Haratian
Immigration Officer
Mehrdad Sarlak
Immigration Officer
Soheil Tasbihchi
Immigration Officer
Hovik Gharibian
Immigration Officer
Dorianne Pahlavan
Airport Hysterical Wife
Houshang Touzie
Deputy Minister of Islamic Guidance
Peter Henry Schroeder
Producer (as Peter-Henry Schroeder)
Ali Farkhonde
Tehran Car Rental Man
Sahm McGlynn
Bearded Fundamentalist in Bazaar
Muhammed Cangören
Bazaar Shopkeeper (as Muhammed Cangoren)
Asghar Allah Veirdi Zadeh
Bazaar Angry Man
Leyla Beysulen
Angry Woman (as Leyla Beysülen)
Lindsey Ginter
Hedley Donovan
Tim Quill
Alan Sosa
Larry Sullivan
Engell's Secretary
Danilo Di Julio
Sgt. Gauthier
Fanshen Cox
White House Operator
Tehmina Sunny
Swissair Ticketing Agent
Amir K
Passport Official (as Amir Kamyab)
Baris Deli
Carpet Factory Komiteh
Cas Anvar
Revolutionary Guard
Bahram Khosraviani
Revolutionary Guard
Sam Sheikholeslami
Revolutionary Guard
Saba Sarem
Revolutionary Guard
Puya Abbassi
Revolutionary Guard
Reza Mir
Komiteh Reza
Jozef Fahey
Lock Up PA
Annie Little
Swissair Gate Agent
Fahim Fazli
Komiteh Subordinate
Brandon Tabassi
Young Komiteh at Airport
John Hans Tester
Swissair Pilot (as Hans Tester)
Alex Schemmer
Swissair Co-Pilot
Yan Feldman
Air Traffic Controller
Nancy Stelle
Swissair Flight Attendant
Maz Siam
Iraqi Border Guard
Ken Edling
Assistant Secretary of State
Deborah Deimel Bean
State Department Official
Michael Chieffo
CIA Archives Officer
Taylor Schilling
Christine Mendez
Marc Abbink
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Martin Andris
Lab Sound Man (uncredited)
Noah Arrue
Refugee (uncredited)
Ninef Arsanos
Extra (uncredited)
Jeffrey Ashkin
Iranian Protestor / Hollywood Partygoer (uncredited)
Gabriel Aslan
Ian's Friend (uncredited)
Koby Azarly
Iranian Airport Police (uncredited)
Nima Azizi
Mahmoud (uncredited)
Danielle Beckwith
Greek Goddess (uncredited)
David Bittick
Marine #3 (uncredited)
Michael Blumenstock
CIA Officer (uncredited)
Phillip Borghee
Iranian Protestor (uncredited)
Ramon Calzada
Muslim Cleric (uncredited)
Rita Cannon
Protester (uncredited)
Jimmy Carter
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Momo Casablanca
Visa Seeker (uncredited)
Victoria Charters
Swissair Gate Rep (uncredited)
Jennifer Christopher
Peg
Amaru Cloud
Iranian Boy (uncredited)
Rebecca Clouse
Flight Attendant (uncredited)
Shaun Daley
Chancery Hostage (uncredited)
Matt Doherty
Butler (uncredited)
Soloicus Twentius Eightican
Film Producer (uncredited)
Ehab Elgharabawy
Iranian Passenger (uncredited)
Ibrahim Elkest
Protester (uncredited)
Kristi Faye
Airline Stewardess (uncredited)
Jerald Garner
CIA Pit Team (uncredited)
Clark Gilmer
Space Nurse (uncredited)
Sepideh Haftgoli
Iranian Stewardess (uncredited)
Priyom Haider
Protestor (uncredited)
Fouad Hajji
Komiteh (uncredited)
Lucas N. Hall
Protestor (uncredited)
Philip Baker Hall
C.I.A Director Stansfield Turner (uncredited)
Matt Harding
Driver (uncredited)
Kevin Hawley
Canadian Chancellor (uncredited)
Daniel Hayek
Head Table Revolutionary #6 (uncredited)
James A. Howard
CIA Agent (uncredited)
Jasmin Jandreau
Swissair Passenger (uncredited)
Eli Jane
Swissair Stewardess (uncredited)
Richard Allan Jones
Smokehouse Patron (uncredited)
Rocky Kanaka
Assistant (uncredited)
Jason Kapraun
Argo Staff (uncredited)
Athena Talin Katalaris
Persian Child / Refugee (uncredited)
David Dustin Kenyon
Argo Staff (uncredited)
Siamak Keyvani
Swissair Passenger (uncredited)
Michael Klemp
State Department Member (uncredited)
Elena Kolpachikova
Hollywood Actress (uncredited)
Michelangelo Kowalski
Lab Tech (uncredited)
Germano Kuerten
Revolutionary (uncredited)
Michael Kunselman
Marine #4 (uncredited)
Veronika Kurshinskaya
Air France Stewardess (uncredited)
Mihaela Lacramioara
Refugee (uncredited)
Diamond Nicole Landeen
Little Girl in Bar (uncredited)
Michael Laren
Argo Graphic Designer (uncredited)
Jonathan Levian
Komiteh Yoni (uncredited)
Michael Lovern
Embassy Senior Staff Member (uncredited)
Chanelle Lyn
Iranian Protestor (uncredited)
Amir Malaklou
Brother Ali (uncredited)
Seli Marset
Pakistani Stewardess (uncredited)
Ayden Mayeri
Flight Attendant (uncredited)
Coleman McClary
Hollywood Actor (uncredited)
Matt McVay
Hollywood Actor (uncredited)
Roman Mitichyan
Iranian Comiteh in Truck (uncredited)
Derek Mobraaten
Protester (uncredited)
Anthony Narvaez
Head Table Revolutionary #7 (uncredited)
Armin Nasseri
Reporter (uncredited)
Asal Nazerpour
India Air Flight Attendant (uncredited)
Marsad Nikui
Chilled Passenger (uncredited)
Randy Oglesby
Pat Horan
Francisco Ovalle
Protestant #1 (uncredited)
Salomon Passariello
Komiteh (uncredited)
Josh Pellerin
Iranian Protester (uncredited)
Erin Pickett
Liz Taylor Look-alike (uncredited)
Sandra Plazinic
Space Girl (uncredited)
Bill Porter
Publicist (uncredited)
Tyson Power
Canadian Embassy Staffer #2 (uncredited)
Rita Qatami
Iranian Visa Seeker (uncredited)
Erick Ramirez
Space Armor Pants Guy (uncredited)
Gerry Rand
White House Staff (uncredited)
Sean Patrick Reilly
Slone (uncredited)
Ray Remillard
CIA Staff (uncredited)
Ayanery Reyes
Swissair Iranian Passenger (uncredited)
Korrina Rico
Hollywood Starlet (uncredited)
Vincent Rivera
Cameraman (uncredited)
Moe Rock
Protestor (uncredited)
Abe Rogland
CIA Senior Agent (uncredited)
Brendan Rooney
Marine Cpl. (uncredited)
Mitchell Salberg
Photographer (uncredited)
Nick Santoro
Hostage (uncredited)
Christina Sardinas
Protester (uncredited)
James Shanklin
Mike Touzani (uncredited)
Brandon Slagle
Canadian Embassy Staffer #1 (uncredited)
Sally Spaide
Flight Attendant (uncredited)
Michael Stailey
Chancery Staff (uncredited)
Steven T Stanton
Sound Guy (uncredited)
Stephen Szibler
CIA Agent (uncredited)
Kaveh Taherian
Head Table Revolutionary #2 (uncredited)
Teemaree
India Air Flight Attendant (uncredited)
John H. Tobin
CIA Agent (uncredited)
Fred Toma
Bus Driver (uncredited)
Jack Topalian
Iran Airline Staff (uncredited)
Sunny Vachher
Iranian Protester (uncredited)
Desary Vailencour
State Secretary (uncredited)
Dennis Velasco
Iranian Protestor (uncredited)
Ron Vitalia
CIA Pit Team (uncredited)
Mike Wallace
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jeremy Gram Weaver
Chancery Hostage (uncredited)
Don Whatley
CIA Staff (uncredited)
Xavier Wolf
Boy in Neighborhood (uncredited)
Rana Yamak
Iranian Kid (uncredited)
Yasmeen Yamak
Iranian Kid (uncredited)
Omid Zader
Komiteh (uncredited)
Rafael Zubizarreta
Protestor (uncredited)
Did you know?
Trivia
Ben Affleck met the former CIA operative Tony Mendez for the first time in March 2011 to discuss his role. The meeting took place at the Washington, D.C., Chadwicks Bar on K Street where the infamous spy Aldrich Ames had passed classified American documents to the KGB. In the movie, however, the initial meeting place where the pivotal scheme was hatched was staged at the Smoke House restaurant in Burbank, California, a real-life haunt for many movie celebrities. George Clooney and Grant Heslov's company, SmokeHouse Productions, is named for this restaurant.
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The first film directed by Ben Affleck not to be set in his hometown of Boston.
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Lester Siegel (played by Alan Arkin) is said to be a composite character. However, in real life, the make-up artist Robert Sidell, a friend of John Chambers, posed as the fake film's producer. Sidell's wife, Andi, was the fake production company's receptionist. Ben Affleck assumed that Sidell, like Chambers, had passed away, but he was informed just before the film's release that he was still alive and well. Affleck had Robert Sidell flown to the film's premiere in Los Angeles, and in his opening remarks, he gave recognition to Sidell for his part in the mission.
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Goofs
The insignia outside the Canadian Ambassador's residence is a maple leaf. This is not used by Canadian diplomatic missions. The royal Canadian coat of arms (implemented in 1921) would have been used instead.
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In the establishing shot when Tony Mendez goes to Hollywood to seek help is the dilapidated HOLLYWOOD sign, which was indeed how the sign appeared in the mid-1970s after years of neglect. Since that sign was originally built in the 1920s, it was only planned as a temporary structure. However, the sign was refurbished and rebuilt with new letters in November 1978, which was a full year before the Iranian hostage crisis began.
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When Tony Mendez and Jack O'Donnell go to the Office of the Secretary of State there is a woman typing at a desk, at the front of the desk there is an envelope with two stamps on it, one stamp is a 37 cent American flag design which was first used in 2002, the other is a 2 cent stamp issued in 2006 depicting Navajo jewelry. In 1980 a first class stamp cost 15 cents.
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Quotes
Tony Mendez: Extraction is like abortion: you don't want to need one but you don't do it yourself.
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LA Times Reporter: What does the title refer to?
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Jack O'Donnell: [dropping Tony off at the airport] I'm required to remind you that if you're detained, the Agency will not claim you.
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Faq
Q
What happened to the rest of the hostages?
A
Following the escape of the Americans hiding in the Canadian consulate, the US military attempted a rescue by force of the remaining 52 hostages, spearheaded by the newly formed Delta Force. However the helicopters involved ran into a severe dust-storm which disabled several and caused the mission to be aborted. This mishap would be compounded by tragedy when two of the aircraft being used collided killing eight of the rescue force. All the hostages would be released in early 1981 as the Shah had, by then, died and Iran was engaged in a war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq and desperate for its frozen assets abroad to be freed in order to fund the war.
Q
How much did the CIA actually have to with this rescue operation?
A
According to former US President Jimmy Carter, whose administration had to authorize the CIA's part of this whole operation, this film is a dramatized Hollywood exaggeration of the agency's role in the extraction when in reality "90 percent of the contribution to the ideas and consummation of the plan was Canadian." Source.
Q
What is 'Argo' about?
A
CIA operations specialist Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck) formulates a plan to enter Iran and rescue six Americans -- Joe (Scoot McNairy) and Kathy (Kerry Bishé) Stafford, Mark (Christopher Denham) and Cora (Clea DuVall) Lijek, Henry Lee Schatz (Rory Cochrane), and Bob Anders (Tate Donovan) -- who went into hiding following the storming of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran during the Iran hostage crisis (1979-1981). With the help of film producer Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin) and Hollywood make-up artist John Chambers (John Goodman), they concoct an elaborate ruse of a Canadian film crew scouting locations in Iran for a science fiction movie called Argo.
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