See this year's Best Picture award winning move, Argo.
When militants seize control of the U.S. embassy in Tehran during the height of the Iranian Revolution, CIA agent Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck) creates a fake Hollywood film production in order to rescue a group of American diplomats who have sought refuge at the home of the Canadian ambassador.
As the six members of the embassy staff remain behind closed doors, armed militants conduct thorough searches of local homes, and kill anyone suspected of harboring the Americans.
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Posing as a Canadian film producer, Mendez plans to enter Tehran under the precipice of scouting locations for a science fiction film, and pass off the refugees as his crew and then fly out of Iran right under the militants' noses. With Alan Arkin, and John Goodman.
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