United 93 (2006)

United 93
Rolling Stone
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Studio: Universal Pictures
Rating: R
Release Date: Apr 28, 2006
Running Time: 111 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
Country Of Origin: United Kingdom
Country Of Origin: France
synopsis
The story of the takeoff and hijacking of United Airlines Flight 93 by terrorists, the discovery by passengers with cell phones that other hijacked planes had been steered into the World Trade Center towers, and the realization that their plane was being steered toward Washington D.C.
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Capt. Jason M. Dahl
First Officer LeRoy Homer
Deborah Welsh
CeeCee Lyles
Wanda Anita Green
Sandra Bradshaw
Lorraine G. Bay
Todd Beamer
William Joseph Cashman
Jane Folger
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rating  PETER TRAVERS - April 27, 2006
Doesn't seem to matter that United 93, written and directed with bruising brilliance and healing compassion by Paul Greengrass, is a monumental achievement that stands above any film this year. According to the polls, audiences intend to shun it. It's too soon, we're told, for a movie to take on 9/11. It's too speculative to watch a re-enactment of what might have happened that morning on United Airlines Flight 93 -- departing Newark for San Francisco -- when thirty-three passengers and seven… Continued
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Be prepared. Writer/director Paul Greengrass' incredibly well made United 93 is overwhelming, telling a story we've all come to know so very well. It will be one of the most affecting movies you'll ever see--if you can bring yourself to see it, that is.

Story

Set up very much like a documentary, United 93 puts you right there onboard United Airlines Flight 93, the fourth hijacked plane on Sept. 11, 2001, which crashed in a Pennsylvania field, just short of its intended target. The first half of… Continued