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DVD : World Trade Center (Full Screen Edition)In association with Amazon.comstarring: Nicolas Cage, Michael Peña, Maria Bello, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Connor Paolo directed by: Oliver Stone  List Price: $14.98 Amazon.com's Price: $13.49 You Save: $1.49 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: Paramount EAN: 0097361199542 Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC Label: Paramount Manufacturer: Paramount Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Paramount Region Code: 1 Release Date: December 12, 2006 Running Time: 129 minutes Studio: Paramount Theatrical Release Date: August 09, 2006 Sales Rank: 51978 MPN: PARD119954D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: "World Trade Center is a film about heroism and the best in all of us," raves Good Morning America’s Joel Siegel. Academy Award winner, Nicolas Cage stars in the unforgettable true story of the courageous rescue and survival of two Port Authority policemen who were trapped in the rubble on September 11, 2001 after they volunteered to go in and help. Academy Award winning director, Oliver Stone reveals an intimate look at the events of the day as seen through the eyes of the survivors, their families and their rescuers Amazon.com: Regardless of whether it was "too early" in 2006 to dramatize the events of September 11th, 2001, World Trade Center succeeds as a tribute to the courage and sacrifice of those who served at "ground zero" in the wake of terrorist attacks on the WTC's twin towers in New York City. Removed from the politics of war and terrorism (yet still, like all films, inherently political in expressing its point of view), Oliver Stone's potent drama focuses on the nightmarish ordeal, and subsequent rescue, of Port Authority policemen John McLoughlin (Nicolas Cage) and Will Jimeno (Michael Peña), who were buried deeply within the rubble of the WTC after the twin towers collapsed. Granted, it's only the film's historical context that distinguishes it from any other dramatic rescue story, but in focusing on the goodness of humanity in response to the evil of terrorists who remain unnamed and off-screen, Stone and first-time screenwriter Andrea Berloff create an emotional context as powerful as anything Stone has directed since Platoon. Even as he resorts to some questionable tactics typically lacking in subtlety, Stone refrains from much of the blunt-force filmmaking that has made him a critical punching bag, rising to this challenging occasion with a heartfelt and deeply American portrait of unity – personal, familial, and national. Flaws and all, World Trade Center serves an honorable purpose, reminding us all that for those fleeting days in September 2001, America showed its best face to a sympathetic world. --Jeff Shannon Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Not Oliver's best, but still not bad. So I had seen this movie a while ago in theaters. I've always liked Oliver Stone films (i.e. Platoon, J.F.K, and Born on the Fourth of July). I thought that this film was a little under rated. Granted it's not his best, but is still one of Stone's better, recent films. The film has a lot of heart, and celebrates the American spirit on a day when it seemed like it was almost lost. A very moving, and touching film. Rating:  - heart breaking!!!This movie was amazing!!! i loved it, it was sad, heartbreaking, well written all of the great thing you want in a movie!!! Rating:  - This film does not do justice to the TRUE Heroes of 911.The men who died and risked their lives were true heroes, and true men of honor, not this band of candy-coated liberal sissies that made the movie. I'm sorry they missed the chance to film a movie that would truly honor the fallen and be a memorial to them. This is just another heap of Hollywood and Liberal media style bs. Oh please. Of all people to play the part of a heroic paramedic risking his life to save others, Nicholas Cage? Cage? The talentless actor who makes millions ... Read More Rating: - Brilliant filmThis is a brilliant story. It follows a police officer and shows another side of september 11. It is fiction, but at the same time is close to the truth. (I might be wrong about that actually, it might be a true story) Forgive me for not having the full facts on it before typing this review. It is well worth seeing all the same. Rating: - it was excellenti bought this movie because i thought it might be good but when i watched it it was way way better then i thought it would be. i cried and cried watching this movie and for a guy that is pretty unusual.for all you people out there never go by other reviewers. you have to see it for yourself. thank you. Browse for similar items by category:
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