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Release
Date: |
08/09/2006
- Nationwide |
Run
Time: |
2
hr. 15 min. |
MPAA
Rating: |
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| For
intense and emotional content, some disturbing images and language. |
Genre: |
Drama |
Starring: |
Nicolas
Cage, Michael Pena, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Maria Bello, Gary Stretch |
Director(s): |
Oliver
Stone |
Producer(s): |
Michael
Shamberg, Stacey Sher, Moritz Borman, Debra Hill |
Writer(s): |
Andrea
Berloff |
Studio: |
Paramount
Pictures |
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| Synopsis |
| September 11, 2001 was an unusually warm day in New
York. Will Jimeno, an officer with the Port Authority Police Department,
was tempted to take a personal day to enjoy his hobby of bow hunting,
but ultimately decided that he would go to work. Sergeant John McLoughlin,
a respected veteran of the PAPD, had been up for hours--a requirement
of his daily, 1 ½ hour trek to the city. They and their colleagues
made their way to midtown Manhattan, just like they did any other
day. Only this wasn't any other day. A team of PAPD first responders
drove from mid-town Manhattan to the World Trade Center. Five men,
including McLoughlin and Jimeno, went into the buildings and were
trapped when the towers collapsed. Miraculously, McLoughlin and Jimeno
survived, but were buried and pinned beneath slabs of concrete and
twisted metal, 20 feet below the rubble field. Though they couldn't
see each other, each could hear that the other had survived, and for
the next 12 hours, McLoughlin and Jimeno kept each other alive--talking
about their families, their lives on the force, their hopes, their
disappointments. |
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