World Trade Center

  • Title: World Trade Center
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Let’s get this out of the way right now – the film does not, in any way, exploit the events of 9/11.  In a strange way, in fact, it celebrates the good that came out of such a horrific tragedy.  Oliver Stone and his cast and crew have rarely been better.  World Trade Center is one of the best movies of the year.

On an otherwise normal September day the unthinkable happens when a commercial airliner runs into the World Trade Center.  Sergeant John McLoughlin (Nicolas Cage) leads a group of Port Authority police down to help evacuate the towers.

As the team gathers supplies and travels by bus down to the towers they hear rumors of other planes hitting the towers and the Pentagon.  The information is sketchy, as is their role in this crisis.  As McLoughlin states, there is no plan for a tragedy this size.

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