Director Paul Greengrass recounts the final moments of the ill-fated flight in this 9/11 drama.
This film, which was released ahead of Oliver Stone"s World Trade Centre, is the intensely harrowing story of the heroic forced landing of flight United Airlines 93 on September 11 2001. As the film"s poster tag-line says, this is the story of the plane that didn"t meet its target, but was brought down by the passengers after the plane had been hijacked by knife wielding terrorists.
United 93"s intensity picks up during the initial hijack scene, and continues to fix the viewer to their seat for the rest of the "flight". Paul Greengrass adopts a very real, gritty filmmaking technique, similar to that used in Michel Winterbottom"s 2007 film "A Mighty Heart", and manages to keep the pace without straying out of real time. Right up until the stunning ending, this is a fair and intelligent portrayal of the 9/11 disaster.
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Paul Greengrass directs this controversial drama, following the last moments of the passengers on United Flight 93 when it was hijacked by terrorists on the 11th of September, 2001. In mid-air, some of the passengers start hearing reports of other planes that have crashed into the World Trade Centre in New York. Realising that their plane has also been hijacked, the passengers decide to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to stop it reaching the target, potentially saving thousands of lives.
Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. United 93 tells the story of the passengers and crew, their families on the ground and the flight controllers who watched in dawning horror as United Airlines Flight 93 became the fourth hijacked plane on the day of the worst terrorist attacks on American soil: September 11, 2001. United 93 recreates the doomed trip in actual time, from takeoff to hijacking to the realization by those onboard that their plane was part of a coordinated attack unfolding on the ground beneath them. The film attempts to understand the abject fear and courageous decisions of those who -over the course of just 90 minutes - transformed from a random assembly of disconnected strangers into bonded allies who confronted an unthinkable situation. Actors Christian Clemenson, Gary Commock, Polly Adams, Opal Alladin, Starla Benford, Trish Gates, Nancy McDoniel, David Allen Basche, Richard Bekins, Susan Blommaert, Ray Charleson, Liza Colon-Zayas & Lorna Dallas Director Paul Greengrass Certificate 15 years and over Year 2006 Screen Widescreen 2.35:1 Anamorphic Languages English ; German - Dolby Digital (5.1) Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; German ; Arabic ; Danish ; Finnish ; Hebrew ; Norwegian ; Swedish ; Turkish ; Icelandic Duration 1 hour and 46 minutes (approx)
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