Vantage Point (2008)

Director:

Pete Travis

Writer (WGA):

Barry Levy (written by)

Release Date:

22 February 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

8 Strangers. 8 Points of View. 1 Truth.

Plot:

The attempted assassination of the American President is told and re-told from several different perspectives. |

Plot Keywords:

Assassination | Flashback Sequence | U.S. President | Video Recorder | Multiple Perspectives

Awards:

1 win

US Showtimes:

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Cast

Dennis Quaid	...	Thomas Barnes
Matthew Fox	...	Kent Taylor
Forest Whitaker	...	Howard Lewis
Bruce McGill	...	Phil McCullough
Edgar Ramirez	...	Javier
Saïd Taghmaoui	...	Suarez
Ayelet Zurer	...	Veronica
Zoe Saldana	...	Angie Jones (as Zoë Saldana)
Sigourney Weaver	...	Rex Brooks
William Hurt	...	President Ashton
James LeGros	...	Ted Heinkin
Eduardo Noriega	...	Enrique
Richard T. Jones	...	Holden
Holt McCallany	...	Ron Matthews
Leonardo Nam	...	Kevin Cross
Dolores Heredia	...	Marie
Alicia Zapien	...	Anna (as Alicia Jaziz Zapien)
Justin Sundquist	...	Parsons
Sean O'Bryan	...	Cavic
José Carlos Rodríguez	...	Mayor De Soto
Rodrigo Cachero	...	Luis
Guillermo Iván	...	Felipe
Xavier Massimi	...	Miguel
Shelby Fenner	...	Grace Riggs
Ari Brickman	...	Secret Service Agent
Brian McGovern	...	Mark Reinhart
Lisa Owen	...	American Woman
Rocío Verdejo	...	Paulina
Marisa Rubio	...	Police Woman

Directed by
Pete Travis

Writing credits (WGA)
Barry Levy		(written by) (as Barry L. Levy)

Produced by
Ricardo Del Río	....	co-producer (as Ricardo Del Rio Galnares)
Callum Greene	....	executive producer
Tania Landau	....	executive producer
Neal H. Moritz	....	producer
Lynwood Spinks	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Atli Örvarsson

Cinematography by
Amir M. Mokri		(director of photography) (as Amir Mokri)

Film Editing by
Stuart Baird
Sigvaldi J. Kárason

Casting by
Sarah Finn		(as Sarah Halley Finn)
Randi Hiller

Production Design by
Brigitte Broch

Art Direction by
Marcelo Del Rio
Hania Robledo		(supervising art director)

Set Decoration by
Denise Camargo

Costume Design by
Luca Mosca

Makeup Department
Gerardo perez Arreola	....	key hair stylist
Antonio Garfias	....	key makeup artist: second unit (as Luis Antonio Garfias Ramos)
Eduardo Gómez	....	makeup department head (as Eduardo Gómez Aguilera)
Esther Lomeli	....	hair stylist
Sandra Miguell	....	key makeup artist (as Sandra Migueli Lopez Soto)
Nina Paskowitz	....	hair stylist
Ruth Bermudo	....	makeup artist (uncredited)
Fernando Legarreta	....	makeup artist (uncredited)
Peter Robb-King	....	personal makeup artist: Sigourney Weaver (uncredited)

Production Management
Pablo Buelna	....	unit manager (as Pablo Buelna Serrano)
Emmanuel Cabare	....	production supervisor
Arturo Del Rio	....	unit production manager
Mark Harris	....	post-production supervisor
María Cabello	....	assistant production manager (uncredited)
Cristina Ecija	....	unit production manager: Spain (uncredited)
Guillermo Garibay	....	assistant unit manager (uncredited)
Denis Pedregosa	....	executive in charge of production: Spain (uncredited)
Héctor Villegas	....	assistant unit manager (uncredited)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Renan Bendersky	....	second assistant director
Manuel Castro	....	second assistant director: second unit
Ricardo Del Río	....	second unit director (as Ricardo Del Rio Galnares)
Nick Heckstall-Smith	....	first assistant director
Frederic Henocque	....	first assistant director
Patrick Heyerdahl	....	second assistant director
Jose Jimenez	....	first assistant director: second unit (as J. Abel Jiminez)
Hiromi Kamata	....	second second assistant director (as Hiromi Kamata Trejoluna)
Julian Valdes	....	second second assistant director
Valeria Villalobos	....	second assistant director: second unit (as Valeria Villalobos Ehrlich)
Joceline Hernandez	....	trainee assistant director (uncredited)

Art Department
Carlos Benassini	....	draftsman
Carlos Benassini	....	set designer
Devorah Galván Caballero	....	props
Tina Charad	....	concept artist
Jane Clark	....	storyboard artist
Israel Delgado Rivera	....	graphic designer
Aimee Dominguez	....	property master
Carlos Gamboa	....	set designer
Laura González	....	decoration coordinator
Maria Paz Gonzalez	....	assistant to art director
Rafael Mandujano	....	lead graphics
Erick Monroy	....	set designer
Mark Moretti	....	storyboard artist
Magali Sagarra	....	assistant to production designer
Jorge Sainz	....	lead man
Joseph Strachan	....	storyboard artist
Colin Thurston	....	property master
Sandro Valdez	....	set designer

Sound Department
Mark Appleby	....	adr mixer
Harry Barnes	....	foley supervisor
Antony Bayman	....	sound mix technician
Peter Burgis	....	foley artist
Martin Cantwell	....	sound designer
Simon Chase	....	adr editor
Simon Chase	....	co-supervising sound editor
Ed Colyer	....	foley mixer
Tony Currie	....	sound editor
James Dandridge	....	sound maintenance engineer
Iain Eyre	....	sound editor
Richard Fordham	....	sound editor
Glen Gathard	....	assistant foley mixer
Alex Joseph	....	foley editor
Eddy Joseph	....	supervising sound editor
Robin Knapp	....	first assistant sound editor
Steve Little	....	sound editor
Howard London	....	adr mixer
David Mackie	....	foley editor
Santiago Núñez	....	sound mixer
Kath Pollard	....	additional sound re-recording mixer
Mike Prestwood Smith	....	sound re-recording mixer
Colin Ritchie	....	dialogue editor
Jamie Roden	....	sound re-recording mixer
Johnathan Rush	....	sound mix technician
Mark Taylor	....	sound re-recording mixer
Ceri Thomas	....	assistant sound editor

Visual Effects by
Eri Adachi	....	rotoscope artist: Rainmaker
Dan Adams	....	visual effects
Simon Ager	....	digital compositor
Sav Akyuz	....	visual effects editor: Rainmaker
Lee Allan	....	digital compositor
Chris Anderson	....	visual effects producer: Rainmaker
Josh Awesome	....	rotoscope artist: Rainmaker
Graeme Baitz	....	digital compositor: Rainmaker
Graeme Baitz	....	rotoscope lead artist: Rainmaker
Geeta Basantani	....	matte painter
Richie Basilan	....	rotoscope
Corey Bastiaans	....	visual effects
Jordan Benwick	....	compositor
Sebastian Bilbao	....	CG supervisor
Justin Brekke	....	digital film I/O technician: Rainmaker
Gary J. Brown	....	digital effects artist
James B. Cain	....	digital compositor
Billy A. Campbell	....	lead visual effects editor
Zac Campbell	....	rotoscope artist: Rainmaker
Michael Cashore	....	digital compositor
Brian Chacon	....	head of production technology: Rainmaker
David Chen	....	rotoscope artist
Hyemee Choi	....	CG artist
John Cornejo	....	digital compositor: Rainmaker
Martyn 'Moose' Culpitt	....	digital compositor
Kristin Dearholt	....	digital production manager
Theo Diamantis	....	digital compositor
Mike Diltz	....	digital compositor
Harriet Donington	....	visual effects producer
Jason Dowdeswell	....	visual effects production supervisor
Robert Durnin	....	technical director: Massive rendering
Paddy Eason	....	visual effects supervisor
Paul Ensby	....	digital color timer
Gerald Feather	....	matchmove
Kelly Fischer	....	digital compositor: Rainmaker
Brian Fisher	....	compositing supervisor
Julia Frey	....	visual effects plate producer
Safeer Ghaznavi	....	compositor
Jason Hancox	....	motion capture artist
Jason Hancox	....	rotoscope artist: Rainmaker
Adam Hansen	....	motion capture lead: Rainmaker
Rob Hansen	....	motion capture editor: Rainmaker
P.J. Harling	....	visual effects editor
Mark Harrison	....	digital artist
Peter Hart	....	lead matchmove artist
Paul Hendriks	....	roto artist
Alan Hernandez	....	Massive lighting and rendering lead
Steven Hodgson	....	visual effects producer: Rainmaker
Steven Hodgson	....	visual effects supervisor: second unit
Christina Hsu	....	Massive lead
Travis Wade Ivy	....	compositor
Stephen James	....	digital compositor: Rainmaker
Viv Jim	....	digital compositor: Rainmaker
Dean Koonjul	....	digital compositor: Rainmaker UK
Alex Kyrou	....	digital film I/O technician: Rainmaker
Charles Lai	....	rotoscope artist
Jean Lapointe	....	digital compositor
Matthias Lowry	....	visual effects
Hugh Macdonald	....	digital compositor: Rainmaker
Michael MacGillivray	....	visual effects coordinator
Tom Mangat	....	rotoscope artist
Agata Matuszak	....	animator
Tom McHattie	....	digital compositor
Abel Milanes	....	sequence lead/compositor
Benjamin Miller	....	rotoscope artist
Sam Nixon	....	senior matchmove artist
Jonathan Opgenhaffen	....	lead CG artist: Rainmaker UK
Marianne O'Reilly	....	visual effects executive producer: Rainmaker
Jinnie Pak	....	visual effects line producer: CIS Vancouver
Vasho Pekar	....	rotoscope artist: Rainmaker
Diana Jane Perry	....	digital film technician
Christine Petrov	....	head of 2D
Chris Pettigrew	....	digital compositor
Chi Pham	....	visual effects systems administrator
Lee Pierce	....	visual effects artist
Mark Pullyblank	....	animator
Becky Roberts	....	visual effects line producer
Sherri Rogers	....	previz animator
Daniel Rubin	....	sequence lead: Rainmaker
Drew Shields	....	senior matchmove artist: Rainmaker
Karl Sisson	....	texture painter: Rainmaker Digital Pictures
James Thornton	....	senior animator: crowd simulation artist
Matthew Tinsley	....	post-viz artist
Matthew Tinsley	....	post-viz designer
Matthew Tinsley	....	visual effects editor
Jason Toth	....	senior visual effects compositor
Curtis Tsai	....	data I/O: Rainmaker
Luke Vallee	....	digital compositor
Brent Veal	....	rotoscope artist
David Wahlberg	....	digital compositor: Rainmaker UK
Ross Wallis	....	compositor
Andrew Walton	....	visual effects editor
Mike Washburn	....	visual effects artist
Joni Williams	....	rotoscope artist
Greg Winhall	....	match mover: Rainmaker
Jessica Woods	....	rotoscope artist
Johan Yang	....	animator: Rainmaker
Teh-wei Yeh	....	matchmove artist
Jody Zoerb	....	motion capture editor: Rainmaker

Stunts
Hugo Aguilera	....	utility stunts
Teresa Arteaga	....	stunts
Odin Ayala	....	stunts
Omar Ayala	....	stunt driver
Omar Ayala	....	stunts
Gregory J. Barnett	....	stunts
Toni Bucio	....	assistant stunt coordinator
Gilbert B. Combs	....	stunts
Phil Culotta	....	stunt coordinator
John Escobar	....	utility stunts
Dane Farwell	....	stunts
Andy Gill	....	stunt coordinator: second unit
David M. Graves	....	utility stunts
Jim Hart	....	stunts
Paul M. Lane	....	car stunts
Mike Massa	....	utility stunts
Allan Padelford	....	stunts
Denney Pierce	....	stunts
Spiro Razatos	....	stunt coordinator
Monty L. Simons	....	stunts
Justin Sundquist	....	stunts
Rafael Valdez	....	stunts
César René Vigné	....	utility stunts
Juan Manuel Vilchis	....	stunt driver
Mike Washlake	....	stunt rigger
Mike Washlake	....	stunts
Godinez Yolanda	....	stunt double

Camera and Electrical Department
Pete Cavaciuti	....	lead camera operator
Adam Dale	....	aerial director of photography
Juan Fernando Guzmán	....	gaffer: second unit
Edgar Hurtado	....	key second assistant camera
Iwao Kawasaki	....	additional camera operator
Gerardo Manjarrez	....	steadicam operator
Igor Meglic	....	director of photography: second unit
Fernando Moreno	....	gaffer
Juan Pablo Ojeda	....	second assistant camera
Jaime Reynoso	....	camera operator
Carlos Silva	....	video assist operator
J. Glyn Williams	....	first assistant camera: aerial unit

Casting Department
Carla Hool	....	casting: Mexico
Tamara Hunter	....	casting associate
Taylor Jenkins	....	casting assistant
Rodrigo Urbano	....	casting assistant
Jorge Valdés García	....	extras casting
Sebastian Aguirre	....	extras casting assistant (uncredited)
Stefan A. Anderson	....	extras casting assistant (uncredited)
Sara Bachelder	....	extras casting (uncredited)
Brendan Donnison	....	adr voice casting (uncredited)
Louis Elman	....	adr voice casting (uncredited)
Rodrigo Ruiz Patterson	....	extras casting assistant (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Monica Araiz	....	assistant to costume designer

Editorial Department
Kate Baird	....	first assistant editor
Matthew Benns	....	digital intermediate data manager
Ian Cunningham	....	assistant editor
Casey Dexter-Heske	....	apprentice editor
Paul Ensby	....	digital color timer
Alex Fenn	....	assistant editor
Mo Henry	....	negative cutter
Kevin Holt	....	assistant editor
Laura Jennings	....	assistant editor
Sigvaldi J. Kárason	....	additional editor
Simon David Kenny	....	apprentice editor
Todd Kleparski	....	digital intermediate producer
Valdís Óskarsdóttir	....	additional editor
Frank Pass	....	colorist
Tolly Swallow	....	post-production coordinator
Dominic Thomson	....	digital editor
David Kern	....	additional editor (uncredited)
Chaz Nenneker	....	apprentice editor (uncredited)
Catherine Williams	....	apprentice editor (uncredited)

Music Department
Ryeland Allison	....	composer: additional music
Bob Badami	....	music consultant
Bryan Clements	....	scoring crew
Sandy DeCrescent	....	music contractor
Clay Duncan	....	composer: additional music
Dina Eaton	....	music editor
Mark Eshelman	....	scoring crew
Nick Glennie-Smith	....	conductor
Kevin Globerman	....	digital score recordist
Jörg Hüttner	....	music programmer
Henry Jackman	....	composer: additional music
Steven Kofsky	....	music production services
Penka Kouneva	....	orchestrator
Greg Loskorn	....	scoring technician
Gerard McCann	....	music editor
Jai Meghan	....	scoring crew
Alan Meyerson	....	music scoring mixer
Adam Michalak	....	score recordist
Peter Rotter	....	orchestra contractor
Del Spiva	....	music editor
John Warhurst	....	music editor
Hans Zimmer	....	music consultant

Transportation Department
Enrique Díaz	....	transportation captain
Ricardo Díaz	....	transportation coordinator
Edmundo Pérez	....	dispatcher

Other crew
Juan Aguirre	....	first assistant accountant: Mexico
Mercedes Barbod	....	assistant location manager: Spain
Ron Blecker	....	technical advisor
María Cabello	....	assistant production manager: Spain
Alejandra Cárdenas	....	location supervisor
Barbara Jane Cole	....	assistant to director
Stel Deleon	....	second assistant accountant
Tanya Díaz	....	assistant to actor
María Raquel Dioni	....	on-set production assistant
Marina Filippelli	....	travel coordinator
Chris Silver Finigan	....	production accountant
Edgar Gallaga	....	on-set production assistant: second unit
Ernesto Garabito	....	assistant production coordinator
Omar Arias González	....	location manager
Javier Gonzalez-Rubio	....	production assistant
Beau Holden	....	assistant: Dennis Quaid
Jim Jaffe	....	product placement
Shauna L. Kroen	....	assistant accountant
Orquidea Licona	....	assistant to actor
Juan Salvador Melgoza	....	accounting assistant
Richard Morrison	....	title designer
Arturo Núñez	....	location assistant
Cristina Piña	....	assistant to executive producer
Walter Vega Puig	....	location assistant
Brieann Rich	....	key craft service
Arturo Romero	....	production accountant: Mexico
Félix Rosell	....	location manager
Arturo Saldivar	....	key office production assistant
Jonathan Sanchez	....	key set production assistant: action unit
Horacio Sandoval	....	assistant location manager
Paula Sosa	....	production assistant
Andy Stephens	....	aerial operations manager: Flying Pictures Ltd.
Cid Swank	....	unit publicist
Sue-Allen Villalva	....	production coordinator
Barney Wrightson	....	aerial operations assistant: Flying Pictures Ltd.
Tonia Wright	....	production coordinator
Robyn Younie	....	production coordinator: Studio
Martin Corkidi	....	location assistant (uncredited)
Fernando De La Flor	....	stand-in (uncredited)

Thanks
Hans Zimmer	....	special thanks

Production Companies

• Columbia Pictures (presents)
• Relativity Media (in association with)
• Original Film

Distributors

• Buena Vista Sony Pictures Releasing (BVSPR) (2008) (Russia) (theatrical)
• Columbia Pictures (2008) (USA) (theatrical)
• LK-TEL (2008) (Argentina) (DVD)
• Sony Pictures Entertainment (2008) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2008) (USA) (DVD)
• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2008) (USA) (DVD) (Blu-Ray Disc)
• Sony Pictures Releasing (2008) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• Sony Pictures Releasing (2008) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Sony Pictures Releasing (2008) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Sony Pictures Releasing (2008) (Sweden) (theatrical)
• Sony Pictures Releasing (2008) (Singapore) (theatrical)

Special Effects

• Rainmaker Animation & Visual Effects (visual effects)
• Rainmaker (visual effects)

Other Companies

• Bloomberg Television  television footage provided by
• Casting Valdés  extras casting
• Flying Pictures  aerial filming services provided by
• Gearbox Sound and Vision  additional ProTools systems supplied by
• KanZaman Services  production services: Spain
• MoviePlacement..com  product placement
• On Tour Productions  transportation services
• Packair Airfreight  international logistics
• Panavision  cameras and lenses
• Revolution 435 D&C  grip and lighting equipment
• Soundelux London  sound post-production (as Soundelux)
• Technicolor Creative Services  digital intermediate
• Varèse Sarabande  soundtrack

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for sequences of intense violence and action, some disturbing images and brief strong language.

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Spanish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

SDDS | Dolby Digital | DTS

Certification:

Canada:14A | Singapore:PG | Brazil:14 | Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) | Greece:K-13 | Ireland:12A | Peru:14 | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Sweden:11 | Taiwan:PG-12 | Malaysia:U | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | Australia:M | Argentina:13 | UK:12A | Portugal:M/12 | USA:PG-13 (certificate #42768) | Norway:15 | Germany:12 | Hong Kong:IIA | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Finland:K-13 | Netherlands:12 | South Korea:15 | Malta:12 | Philippines:PG-13 (MTRCB)

Filming Locations:

Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico

Company:

Columbia Pictures

Trivia:

As the shooting was moved to Mexico, the production design department was forced to build a replica of the Plaza Mayor of Salamanca in Mexico. The replica is slightly smaller and simpler than the original.

Goofs:

Continuity: During the aerial views of the plaza, the shadows cast by the buildings change throughout each "vantage" view although they all take place within the same time frame.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Mark Reinhart: Good morning, America. It's now 12 noon in Salamanca, Spain. In a short time, world leaders from over 150 countries meet here in Plaza Mayor to sign up to President Ashton's bold new counterterrorist strategy. Since 9/11, more than 4500 people have been killed in the rising tide of global terror...

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: (2008-02-23)" (2008)

A very engaging action film

I enjoyed the movie. Dennis Quaid and Forrest Whittaker carried the movie and made it an enjoyable experience. For anyone that is easily made motion sick, the camera work is very shaky during the chase scene and had it lasted much longer would have detracted from the overall experience for me personally. The way the story was told was different but kept me engaged right to the end. I would recommend seeing this film if you get the chance.There is a little something for everyone here. Action, drama, a couple of jokes, and some nice views. There are some actors in this movie that may not be well known, but overall I think everyone in it did an adequate job. If you are a fan of Dennis Quaid you should really like this movie.