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rased (released as The Expatriate outside of the US) is a 2012 Canadian-Belgian action thriller film directed by Philipp Stölzl, starring Aaron Eckhart and Olga Kurylenko. The story centers on Ben Logan (Aaron Eckhart) an ex-CIA agent and Amy (Liana Liberato), his estranged daughter who are forced on the run when his employers erase all records of his existence, and mark them both for termination as part of a wide-reaching international conspiracy.

Plot

Ben Logan is an American single parent who has recently moved to Belgium with Amy, his previously estranged teenaged daughter. He works for a company within the Halgate Group, a multinational technology corporation. When one of his co-workers discovers that a patent has been apparently misfiled, Logan brings it to the attention of his boss, Derek Kohler. Shortly afterward, he finds his entire office building is empty and no records exist of the Kohler Company nor his employment. Confused, Logan attempts to prove his employment by accessing bank records, but he and Amy are kidnapped at gunpoint by a coworker.

Logan kills the coworker in front of a stunned Amy, who demands to know his background. Logan cryptically alludes to “getting people in and out of difficult situations”. Logan soon discovers that the rest of his coworkers have all been killed, and he goes into hiding, aided by Amy’s contacts among Moroccan undocumented immigrants she had befriended. Eventually, Logan uncovers documents proving a wide-ranging conspiracy involving illegal arms trafficking to African insurgents, meant to allow Halgate to access lithium mining rights when the insurgents take power. The Halgate shell company Logan was working for was using his security engineering skills to steal these documents from a CIA cache. Logan finally tells Amy that he is an ex-CIA operative.

Father and daughter are hunted by the CIA, Belgian police, and an assassin hired by Halgate. The CIA team is led by Anna Brandt, his former lover, who is also on the Halgate payroll, and who recommended him to the shell company.

After many innocent people have died, Brandt changes sides and attempts to protect Amy, who was captured by the assassin. Brandt is killed by the assassin. Logan goes after his corrupt former employers and arranges to deliver himself and the documents, in exchange for Amy’s life. He is able to say goodbye to Amy when he personally hands a briefcase to Halgate and his assistant, watching her release to her Arab friend. Halgate tells the assassin that Amy and her grandfather, her only other family member, must be killed. Logan is one step ahead, as seconds later Halgate, his assistant, and the assassin are killed by a bomb hidden in the briefcase with the documents. Father and daughter reunite at the airport.

Cast

Aaron Eckhart as Ben Logan
Liana Liberato as Amy Logan
Olga Kurylenko as Anna Brandt
Neil Napier as Derek Kohler / Markus Wolf
Kate Linder as Principal Gibbins
Alexander Fehling as Floyd
Garrick Hagon as James Halgate III
Eric Godon as Maitland
Simone-Élise Girard as Halgate’s Receptionist
David Bark-Jones as Marty Braemer
Debbie Wong as Mei Ling
Jade Hassouné as Abdi
Nick Alachiotis as Walter Smet
Carlo Mestroni as Field Officer
Yassine Fadel as Nabil