During the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, the governments of the United States and Canada partnered to rescue six U.S. foreign service members who had evaded the hostage-taking at the takeover of the American embassy in Iran by staying in the home of the Canadian Ambassador. The governments were able to convince Iran that the six hostages were members of a film crew who were scouting the area for a movie titled Argo. The CIA's fake production company used real designs by comics legend Jack Kirby and Barry Ira Geller's screenplay for the upcoming film Lord of Light. Using John Chambers' idea for the caper, Mendez admitted stealing designs and screenplay from Geller's film production.[3] Armed with professional designs and screenplay, the hostages were successfully able to escape the country under their fake identities

Ben Affleck as Tony Mendez
Bryan Cranston as Jack O'Donnell
Alan Arkin as Lester Siegel
John Goodman as John Chambers
Kyle Chandler as Hamilton Jordan
Victor Garber as Ken Taylor
Tate Donovan as Bob Anders
Clea DuVall as Cora Lijek
Michael Parks as Jack Kirby
Tom Lenk as Rodd
Christopher Stanley as Tom Ahern
Taylor Schilling as Christine Mendez
Ashley Wood as Beauty
Chris Messina as Malinov
Richard Kind as Max Klein
Titus Welliver as Jon Bates
Rory Cochrane as Lee Schatz
Devansh Mehta as Matt Sanders
Omid Abtahi as Reza
Kerry Bishé as Kathy Stafford
Christopher Denham as Mark Lijek
Bob Gunton
Philip Baker Hall
Adrienne Barbeau as Nina
Fouad Hajji as Komiteh