Synopsis
Two police officers struggle to survive when they become trapped beneath the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
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Cast
- Nicolas CageJohn McLoughlin
- Maria BelloDonna McLoughlin
- Maggie GyllenhaalAllison Jimeno
- Danny NucciOfficer Giraldi
- Stephen DorffScott Strauss
- Michael PeñaWill Jimeno
- Jay HernandezDominick Pezzulo
- Michael ShannonDave Karnes
- Dorothy LymanAllison's Mother
- Peter McRobbieAllison's Father
- 90
Newsweek
World Trade Center celebrates the ties that bind us, the bonds that keep us going, the goodness that stands as a rebuke to the horror of that day. Perhaps, in the future, the times will call for more challenging, or polemical, or subversive visions. Right now, it feels like the 9/11 movie we need. - 90
The Hollywood Reporter
This is a film of terrific selectivity. By focusing on two of the few who did survive the collapse, the film achieves emotional power and an uplifting ending. - 90
Time
Very simply, World Trade Center is a powerful movie experience, a hymn in plainsong that glorifies that which is best in the American spirit. - 88
New York Daily News
It's as harrowing as moviegoing gets. - 88
ReelViews
World Trade Center is Stone's most potent motion picture since "Platoon," and may be the most accessible across-the-board since "Wall Street." - 75
Entertainment Weekly
A scrupulous and honorable film. Yet it never comes close to being a revelatory one; it sentimentalizes more than it haunts. - 75
Rolling Stone
Undeniably affecting, but you leave it wanting more. - 70
Variety
World Trade Center yields lovely and touching moments but proves a slow-going, arduous movie experience.