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United 93 (2006) -- A real time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
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United 93 (2006) -- A real time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
United 93 (2006) -- A real time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.

Overview

User Rating:
7.9/10   43,569 votes
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Director:
Writer (WGA):
Paul Greengrass (written by)
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Release Date:
28 April 2006 (USA) more
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Tagline:
September 11, 2001. Four planes were hijacked. Three of them reached their target. This is the story of the fourth. more
Plot:
A real time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 21 wins & 17 nominations more
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(90 articles)
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Devastating, Relentless and Ultimately Cathartic…Essential Viewing. Period. more (791 total)

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Flight 93 (USA) (working title)
United 93 (USA)
Vol 93 (France)
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MPAA:
Rated R for language, and some intense sequences of terror and violence (appeal planned).
Runtime:
111 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Trivia:
The ensemble cast of mainly unknown actors were each given studies of their real life United Flight 93 counterparts. Director Paul Greengrass was then able to partially improvise some of the events for the film. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: As Flight 93 begins its takeoff roll, only one of the passengers seems affected by the acceleration. Just one of their heads is against the headrest. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Ahmed Al Haznawi: [subtitled Arabic] Ziad. It's time.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "The Starter Wife" (2007) more

FAQ

Did the German passenger, Christian Adams actually act like that during the real flight?
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227 out of 323 people found the following comment useful.
Devastating, Relentless and Ultimately Cathartic…Essential Viewing. Period., 28 April 2006
10/10
Author: Ed Uyeshima from San Francisco, CA, USA

A most cathartic experience came over me when I viewed the much publicized "United 93". At once speculative and realistic, the 111-minute film will surely bring back the pall of fatalistic inevitability one feels about 9/11, but its more defining characteristic is revealing the untapped heroism and humanism of people caught in the most malevolent of circumstances. Masterfully written and directed by Paul Greengrass, this relentlessly intense movie covers that fateful morning when United Airlines Flight 93 departed Newark for San Francisco with 33 passengers and seven crew members on board.

As it turns out, Greengrass's heavy background in documentaries turns out to be a blessing in this treatment, as he tracks the subsequent events in real time and uses either under-the-radar actors or actual aviation personnel to play the real-life characters. Instead of focusing on the higher profile passengers to provide an emotional locus, which a more commercial filmmaker would have done, he encompasses all the passengers within the emotional purview of the film, including the four hijackers who killed the pilots and took control of the plane. The key dramatic difference is that we get to know not the people but the situation at hand. Consequently, we get a more realistic sense of the scale of the events that may have occurred on that flight. That's not to say it is any less devastating. In fact, the last half-hour is harrowing in the most personal sense as the inevitable becomes reality.

The power of the film comes from its surprisingly apolitical perspective and the inclusion of the ground personnel trying to comprehend the scope of all the redirected planes that day, in particular, Ben Sliney who effectively plays himself that day, the just-promoted supervisor of the National Air Traffic Control Center in Herndon, Va. None of the actors stand out because the film cumulatively achieves a verisimilitude that simply knocks me out. The film also does not pretend to be the definitive version of what happened on the last few moments of the flight. In an emotional sense, it is rather moot as we are talking about degrees of detail at that point. This is truly essential viewing.

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