'Argo' Hailed as One of the Years Best Movies
Critics gush about Ben Affleck's latest movie, tapping it for an Oscar.
This story jettisons us back to 1979, when hair was long, lapels were wide and Iranian revolutionaries took as hostages 52 Americans from the U.S. Embassy in Teheran. Those who were older than 10 at the time remember the broadcasts of the hostages, who were held for 444 days. But who remembers that six people from the U.S. Embassy fled to the Canadian Embassy? Or that they escaped from Iran safely? What happened to those people forms the story portrayed in Ben Affleck’s latest movie, “Argo.” The six people were rescued by a CIA agent (played by Affleck), who decided he could best get them out by pretending they were part of a Canadian film crew making a cheesy science fiction flick in Iran called “Argo.” The story is true, and the movie …
