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The Terrorist Next Door

SARRAZIN COUTURE ENTERTAINMENT and FORUM FILMS present
KATHLEEN ROBERTSONCHRIS WILLIAM MARTINCHENIER HUNDAL andMICHAEL IRONSIDE
THE TERRORIST NEXT DOOR
Casting ROSINA BUCCI Production Designer CLAUDE PARÉ Music by ROBERT CARLI
Editor GEORGE ROULSTON Director of Photography NORAYR KASPER, CSC
Line Producer CHRISTINA KONTOS Producer SUSAN MURDOCH
Executive Producers PIERRE SARRAZIN SUZETTE COUTURE RICHARD LALONDE
Story by D. A. NATHAN Teleplay by SUZETTE COUTURE Directed by JERRY CICCORITTI

Produced in Association with
CTV
Produced with the participation of
Canadian Television Fund - Licence Fee Program
Quebec Government - Tax Credit Program
The Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit
with the assistance of the Government of Ontario - Ontario Film & Television Tax Credit

CREDITS (NON CONTRACTUALS)

Awards and festivals

Gemini Awards 2009

Awards

  • Best Direction in a Dramatic Program (Jerry Ciccoritti)

Nominations

  • Best TV Movie
  • Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Chenier Hundel)
  • Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role (Reda Guerinik)

Synopsis

The Terrorist Next Door is inspired by real events surrounding the recruitment and the capture of Ahmed Ressam, convicted of having brought a bomb on the territory of the United States to realize the plan of the terrorist group Al Qaeda to blow up the Los Angeles airport on the eve of New Year's Day 1999.

The Terrorist Next Door shows us the very human story of a young Algerian immigrant named Ressam (Chenier Hundal), from his arrival in Montreal to his recruitment by Majid (Reda Guerinik) the head of a sleeper cell of Al Qaeda. Kathleen Robertson plays the role of Nicole, the wife of the chief magnetism undeniable, a woman converted to Islam for the man she loves, a woman blind to the fact that many trips with her husband for a charity have not a charitable purpose as it claims. The world collapses when an old Nicole's flame, now part of the Canadian Intelligence Service (Chris William Martin) appears in his life and tries desperately to make her understand that her husband is deeply involved in terrorist activities and that 'he married her only for use as cover. But the events are already taking place and the race to stop Ressam before he can implement his terrible mission ... in Los Angeles.

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Photos

Photo credit : Nicole Rivelli

Directed by

Jerry Ciccoritti

Teleplay by

Suzette Couture

Story by

D. A. Nathan

Principal cast

NicoleKathleen Robertson
PelletierChris William Martin
RessamChenier Hundal
FBI Agent WadeMichael Ironside