World Trade Center Release
Date:
August 9, 2006 Studio: Paramount Pictures Director: Oliver Stone
Screenwriter: Andrea Berloff Starring: Nicolas Cage, Michael Peña, Maria Bello, Maggie
Gyllenhaal, Jay Hernandez Genre: Drama, Thriller MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for intense and emotional content, some disturbing
images and language) Official Website:
WTCmovie.com |
MySpace.com/WTCfilm
Plot Summary: Academy Award®-winning director
Oliver Stone tells the true story of the heroic survival and rescue of two Port
Authority policemen – John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno – who were trapped in the
rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, after they went in to
help people escape. The film also follows their families as they try to find out
what happened to them, as well as the rescuers who found them in the debris
field and pulled them out. Their story shows how the best in people rose above
the tragic events of that day.
To
have made it appear real and potent could have made it more powerful. Peter Veugelaers:
EntertainmentNutz.com
The movie is sometimes moving and involving. What seems gritty,
though, is only on the surface. This is a soap opera with clichés which
doesn’t sit naturally...more
Stone
Rises Above Political Gamesmanship Sean Means: Salt Lake Tribune
In the restrained and poetic "World Trade Center," director
Oliver Stone and screenwriter Andrea Berloff tell the story of two of
those 20 -- and the story of their families and a world watching the
horror unfold on television. With a combination of painstaking detail
and tactful emotion, they keep Hollywood sentimentality at bay to depict
an event that is overwhelming on its own...more
Rehearsing
The Apocalypse Ella Taylor: LA Weekly
Stone may be the bluntest instrument in Hollywood’s
arsenal, but watching his new film about the collapse of the
Twin Towers, I found myself nostalgic for his chutzpah....more
"World
Trade Center" Stands As A Respectful Tribute Bob Strauss: LA Daily News
Welcome as all of this is after so many Stone cold
freakouts, I hope that the outrage so evident in his more
partisan films returns the next time he takes on a
disturbing subject. "WTC" wants to have a healing effect,
and we can all certainly use one movie like that about 9/11.
But now that it's here, it's time for Stone — and Hollywood
— to move forward with even more courage and honesty...more
A
cautious, earnestly factual and emotionally unassailable
film Peter Travers:
Rolling Stone
The script, by newcomer Andrea Berloff, who worked
with both couples to get the details right, has the sting of
reality to work against any sugarcoating...more
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To
have made it appear real and potent could have made it more powerful.
Rehearsing
The Apocalypse