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Godsend is a 2004 psychological horror thriller film starring Greg Kinnear, Rebecca Romijn, and Robert De Niro, and directed by Nick Hamm from a screenplay by Mark Bomback. It follows a couple (Kinnear and Romijn) who are approached by an enigmatic doctor (De Niro) who offers to clone their deceased son. It received generally negative reviews ...
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"Like a lot of people in the West, my fascination with the tribal region between Afghanistan and Pakistan began when it was cited, over and over again, as the location of the hideout of members of al-Qaeda including Osama bin Laden. In all those years after 9/11, the United States and its allies proved repeatedly incapable of even locating bin Lade...
"John Walker Lindh was, in many ways, a typical northern California teenager. Maybe a little bit quieter than some, a little bit more studious than some. Though he had absolutely no background in Islam, he became fascinated with the religion because he saw Spike Lee's biopic film of Malcolm X and through listening to some hip-hop of that time, whic...
"I was able to spend a bit more than a month traveling around mostly the northeast part of the country of Afghanistan in the company of a wonderful man whom I will call Hussein. His job was to work with journalists and covert operatives of various stripes in Afghanistan in what can often be rather dangerous territory. We were looking for people who...
"What Godsendprotagonist Aden Grace Sawyer discovers once she's begun this deception... is that the fact that these people have never seen an American of any age or any gender, let alone an 18-year-old woman from northern California, is a great help in her attempt to avoid detection. Because she's so strange and so foreign and so alien to these men...
Apr 30, 2004 · ‘Godsend” tells the story of parents whose only son is killed in an accident, and who are offered the opportunity to clone him. If all goes well, the grieving mother will bear a child genetically identical to the dead boy.
Feb 2, 2019 · Set in late 2001, Godsend is inspired by the real-life story of John Walker Lindh, a Muslim convert who was imprisoned by the Americans as an enemy combatant in the Afghan war that followed...
Oct 8, 2018 · “Godsend” builds to a shattering, balefully vivid ending. Aden survives to walk through a minefield — or is it a graveyard?
Oct 8, 2018 · In several respects, John Wray’s “ Godsend ” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) appears to be a conventional specimen: a compact, tautly written novel of travel and growth, about a troubled...
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Oct 9, 2018 · The story of Aden, an 18-year-old Californian and recent convert to Islam who disguises herself as a boy and heads to Pakistan, ostensibly to study the Qu'ran, Godsend is beautifully written, but the prose is never showy just for the sake of showiness.
