Official Movie Website Theatrical Release 08/09/06 Home Video Not Available MPAA Rating Rated PG-13 for intense and emotional content, some disturbing images and language Running Time 2 hours 9 minutes Genre Drama, Suspense Director Oliver Stone Writer Andrea Berloff Cast Nicolas Cage, Michael Pe,Maria Bello, Maggie Gyllenhaal Studio Paramount Pictures |
WORLD TRADE CENTER
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 McLaughlin, a respected
veteran of the PAPD, had been up for hours - a
requirement of his daily, 1 1/2 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 McLaughlin and Jimeno, went into
the buildings themselves and were trapped when
the towers collapsed. Miraculously, McLaughlin and
Jimeno survived, but were buried and pined 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, McLaughlin and Jimeno
kept each other alive - talking about their families,
their lives on the force, their hopes, their
disappointments. Their story is told in the new
motion picture from Olive Stone, "World Trade
Center."
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 McLaughlin, a respected
veteran of the PAPD, had been up for hours - a
requirement of his daily, 1 1/2 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 McLaughlin and Jimeno, went into
the buildings themselves and were trapped when
the towers collapsed. Miraculously, McLaughlin and
Jimeno survived, but were buried and pined 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, McLaughlin and Jimeno
kept each other alive - talking about their families,
their lives on the force, their hopes, their
disappointments. Their story is told in the new
motion picture from Olive Stone, "World Trade
Center."
This film also follows their wives (Donna McLaughlin in Goshen, New York, and Allison Jimeno in Clifton,
New Jersey), children, and parents who suffered in their own confined circle of hell, with no messages
from or information about their loved ones. The film also chronicles the improbable search by a
determined accountant and ex-Marine from Connecticut, Dave Karnes, who found the two officers that
night, and then the dozens of firemen, policemen, and paramedics who rescued them over the next
grueling 12 hours.
--© Paramount Pictures
New Jersey), children, and parents who suffered in their own confined circle of hell, with no messages
from or information about their loved ones. The film also chronicles the improbable search by a
determined accountant and ex-Marine from Connecticut, Dave Karnes, who found the two officers that
night, and then the dozens of firemen, policemen, and paramedics who rescued them over the next
grueling 12 hours.
--© Paramount Pictures
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