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Eye in the Sky is a British film of genre Drama directed by Gavin Hood released in USA on 1 april 2016 with Helen Mirren

Eye in the Sky (2015)

Eye in the Sky
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Released in USA 1 april 2016
Length 1h42
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Genres Drama,    War,    Thriller
Rating72% 3.6474753.6474753.6474753.6474753.647475

Eye in the Sky is a 2015 British thriller film starring Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman, and Barkhad Abdi. The film, directed by Gavin Hood based on a screenplay by Guy Hibbert, features drone warfare. Filming began in South Africa in September 2014.

Eye in the Sky premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival on 11 September 2015. The film is scheduled to be released in theaters in 2015.

Synopsis

Colonel Katherine Powell (Mirren) leads a secret drone mission to capture a terrorist group living in a safehouse in Nairobi, Kenya. When Powell learns that the group plans to carry out a suicide attack, her objective is changed to kill the terrorists. Drone pilot Steve Watts (Paul) targets the safehouse for destruction but reports a nine-year-old girl entering the kill zone. Powell contacts politicians and lawyers to determine whether or not to take action.

Actors

Helen Mirren

(Colonel Katherine Powell)
Aaron Paul

(Steve Watts)
Colin Firth
Alan Rickman

(Lieutenant General Frank Benson)
Barkhad Abdi

(Jama Farah)
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