Plagued by flashbacks to his failed past, salesman Tom Hanks attempts to set up IT deal in Saudi Arabia. He is also bedevilled by a lump on his back, and jet lag, and the fact that the people who he is due to meet continually elude him. He gets involved with a pragmatic driver, Omar Elba, a randy co-worker, Sidse Babett Knudsen and a sympathetic doctor, Sarita Choudhury.
Personal freedoms in Saudi Arabia have I think become more suppressed since this film was made. (It was filmed safely in Morocco.) That aside, the film (based on Dave Eggers novel) is interesting, put together well by Tykwer and editor Alexander Berner (both directed-edited epic well-rated Babylon Berlin TV series), e.g. panic attack scene. (It's a German director and crew.)
Ben Whishaw's in it, apparently.
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