A dirty bomb goes off in Los Angeles, jamming freeways and spreading a toxic cloud.
Director:
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Chris Gorak
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Title: Right at Your Door (2006)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Mary McCormack | ... | Lexi | |
| Rory Cochrane | ... | Brad | |
| Tony Perez | ... | Alvaro | |
| Scotty Noyd Jr. | ... | Timmy | |
| Jon Huertas | ... | Rick | |
| Max Kasch | ... | Corporal Marshall | |
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David Richards | ... | Neil Simmons |
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Nina Barry | ... | Kathy Reynolds |
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Ed Martin | ... | Juan Martinez |
| Jenny O'Hara | ... | Lexi's Mom | |
| Will McCormack | ... | Jason | |
| Hector Luis Bustamante | ... | Store Owner | |
| Soledad St. Hilaire | ... | Hardware Woman | |
| Alejandra Flores | ... | Terrified Woman | |
| Nigel Gibbs | ... | Another Officer | |
After Lexi leaves home to visit Central LA, there's a terrorist attack involving chemical bombs. After the attack, her musician husband, Brad, fails to find her and reluctantly seals himself inside his house. He will have to deal with this decision in the days to come. Written by James Donnelly
The 9-11 experience has given new relevancy to movies about terrorist attacks. In Right at Your Door, writer and first-time director Chris Gorak shows the impact of a sudden attack in Los Angeles. Similar to Spielberg's War of the Worlds, Gorak chooses to focus exclusively on the impact of the events on one coupleLexi, a professional woman who works downtown (Mary McCormack) and her husband Brad (Rory Cochrane), an out-of-work musician.
Right at Your Door adeptly explores the human implications of a scenario that seems all too plausible in today's world. At the onset of the attack there is fear, panic, despair, disorientation and poor judgment. However, as the reality of the situation settles in, a survival instinct emerges, a certain calculating rationality. And finally, Brad and Lexi must face the many moral conflicts that can plague us in times of limited resources, dangerous conditions and life and death decisions. Layered on all of this are further apprehensions and uncertainties that must be dissected: Who can you trust? What does the government know? Whose advice do you listen to? What do we tell our friends and family? It is these issues that make viewing Right at Your Door a powerful and troubling experience. We see a little bit of ourselves in these characters, and it is easy to wonder how we would react in the face of these tragic circumstances. This movie will come back to you in moments of quiet contemplation.
Gorak has made a very good movie, especially given his very limited budget and complete lack of directing experience (he been a production assistant on another movie, but has never directed anything before). I particularly like his decision not to provide any information about where the attacks came from. It's probably not all that realistic, as surely the media would be engage in non-stop speculation, but it served to focus the emotions on those things that really mattered to the characters.
Interesting tidbit from the Sundance Q&A: Some of the scenes of smoke rising over the skyline used actual footage from the bombing in Iraq.