United 93 Page #9

Synopsis: On September 11, 2001, two American Airlines and two United Airlines domestic U.S. flights are hijacked by terrorists. After the collision of two planes against the World Trade Center and one against the Pentagon, the passengers and crew of United Flight 93 decide to struggle against the four terrorists to take back the control of the airplane.
Director(s): Paul Greengrass
Production: Universal Pictures
  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 28 wins & 54 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Metacritic:
90
Rotten Tomatoes:
90%
R
Year:
2006
111 min
$31,500,000
Website
3,632 Views


Right now, you hit me up

every track on every aircraft.

Do we have any communication

with the President at all?

Where are the fighters?

How long can that take?

Air Force One's taken off.

They don't know anything about it.

They don't know where he's going.

Ben, they're evacuating

the White House!

All right, thanks, Carol.

They're evacuating it

right now.

Hey, are we gonna get

an intercept on this, though?

Okay. Good!

Go get yourself out of

your chair and go down...

There's no coordination between

what NORAD has and what we have.

You know where they're headed.

Just get the fighters

up there!

How about the Vice President, sir? Do

we have a location on the Vice President?

Well, then the Vice President

can make the call.

The Vice President can make

the call. We can engage.

Holy sh*t.

Yes, sir. Yes, sir. What's

the ETA on those Langley birds?

Foxy!

Spiders are airborne at 0930,

but they brought them out on an eastbound

heading rather than our northbound.

We're gonna get them turned

as soon as possible.

What the f***? They're what?

They're heading east?

What the hell is wrong out there?

Why are those planes off-course?

It looks like they came out on a standard

scramble heading instead of the one I gave.

We're trying to get clearance

to turn them now.

How the f***

did they get out there?

I don't know, sir.

What the f*** are they doing

out over the water?

I don't care, God damn it, if they break

windows, you turn them back over land!

Roll quad sevens. Turn

them towards Washington now.

Keep looking for him.

Keep looking for him.

It was a plane

that crashed at the Pentagon.

And the Pentagon

is being evacuated.

There is a large fire there,

and that is the smoke you see

in the shot that you

are looking at now.

Whether that fire is in the

building itself or outside,

we have not yet confirmed.

There is a fire on the Mall

in Washington.

The cause of the fire in the Mall in

Washington, we cannot yet tell you.

Oh, my gosh!

Foxy!

Sir.

I want those Langley birds

over Washington.

...that two planes have crashed

into the World Trade Center.

Surveillance, I want you to hit

up tracks west of Cleveland...

Get back into position....

heading towards Las Vegas. Hit up.

Light me up every track

you've got. Let's go.

Let's go, let's go! Let's keep

going here! Let's keep working!

ID, what do you got?

All right,

he's off-course, he's

deviated, and we don't know why.

Confirmed.

Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

Confirmed hijackings.

That's the question.

What are we going to do now?

There's a lot of confusion here

at the Pentagon. It appears that

something hit the Pentagon on

the outside of the fifth corridor,

on the Army corridor.

Several Army officers I talked to

reported hearing a big explosion.

Listen, I'm not taking

any more chances.

We got stuff flying around

we have no control over.

And I don't want a board full of these planes

hitting every building on the East Coast.

This is a national emergency. Everyone

lands, regardless of destination.

That's gonna cost billions.

Just do it!

We have hundreds of

international flights coming in.

They're already in the air.

No. No, I don't want any more

international flights crossing the borders.

They'll have to go back

where they came from.

Nobody's coming into

the country from now on.

Everyone?

Everyone.

Shut off the East Coast. Shut off

all the internationals from Europe.

Shut off South America,

shut off the West Coast,

nothing over the top, either.

We're gonna call Canada

on that?

Yeah, Canada, too.

We're gonna shut down

the airspace.

No, I can't exempt anybody.

Nobody comes in,

and nobody takes off.

Land them all. Take a

moment. Think about this.

We're gonna shut down

the entire country right now?

That's right. Listen,

we're at war with someone,

and until we figure out what to

do about it, we're shutting down.

That's it. We're finished.

...can handle

the emergency situation.

I don't know.

I don't know what to do.

Does anybody know

about the pilot yet?

They don't know.

No. They don't know.

What?

Two planes hit

the World Trade Center.

What?

In New York. The World

Trade Center. Two planes.

My wife says that there was an

explosion at the World Trade Center.

What did he say?

Tell the stewardesses two planes

hit the World Trade Center.

Two planes hit the World Trade

Center. Tell the stewardesses.

What about the five planes?

Someone pass that back.

Just a second. Right.

It doesn't make sense. Are

you sure you heard that right?

Two planes just hit

the World Trade Center.

Two planes have crashed

into the World Trade Center.

What are they doing?

What are they doing?

Two planes just hit

the World Trade Center.

Two planes hit

the World Trade Center.

What did he say?

I don't know. I didn't hear.

It's on the news.

It's on the news.

Yeah, it's on the news, yeah.

Where are you guys

hearing this?

Somebody from up there

said it. Ask up there.

Sandy, take her back,

take her back.

It's airplanes.

They bombed

the World Trade Center?

One after the other

hit the World Trade Center.

Lyzzie, is it... It's planes.

It's not a bomb.

It's two airplanes.

It's not a bomb.

It's airplanes.

What?

It's one after the other.

One after the other

hit the World Trade Center.

Airplanes, one after the other,

hit the World Trade Center.

Where did this...

Who's hearing this?

Where did they come from?

He said it was

on the news?

I'm on line with my wife.

Are you hearing this?

What'd they say?

Two planes hit the World

Trade Center. Is that right?

Do they mean

prop planes?

Whose planes?

What airline?

Is it United?

Okay, sweetie, I will call

you back, I promise.

I just talked to my wife. Two planes

have hit the World Trade Center.

There are five jets

that have been hijacked.

Are we one of them,

or are we the sixth?

Lyzzie, Lyzzie, Lyzzie.

Lyzzie, not the Trade Center,

right? But the...

Into the Pentagon.

It's on the news.

It's on the news, yeah.

There was an...

There was an explosion at

the Pentagon.

Just tell them that.

That's all we know.

Hey, listen, there was

an explosion at the Pentagon.

An explosion at the Pentagon.

Not a fire, an explosion.

United 93, I understand you

have a bomb onboard. Go ahead.

Executive 956, did you

understand that transmission?

Affirmative. He said

there was a bomb onboard.

Executive 956 turning 180.

Executive 956.

American 1060, do you see

anybody northwest of you?

Can you see back

that far there?

Do you have a visual

on him now?

Got him.

We're looking now, sir.

United 93, Cleveland.

United 93, call in.

United 93, United...

Put your seat belts on!

Oh, my God!

We're okay, we're okay.

No, we're okay.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

Hey, this is

a suicide mission.

We have to do something. They

are not gonna land this plane.

They are not gonna take us

back to the airport.

I don't think there's any

other option we have.

If we're gonna die,

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Paul Greengrass

Paul Greengrass (born 13 August 1955) is an English film director, film producer, screenwriter and former journalist. He specialises in dramatisations of real-life events and is known for his signature use of hand-held cameras. His early film Bloody Sunday won the Golden Bear at 52nd Berlin International Film Festival. Other films he has directed include three in the Bourne action/thriller series: The Bourne Supremacy (2004), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), and Jason Bourne (2016); United 93 (2006), for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Director, and received an Academy Award for Best Director nomination, Green Zone (2010) and Captain Phillips (2013). In 2004 he co-wrote and produced the film Omagh, which won British Academy Television Award. In 2007 Greengrass co-founded Directors UK, a professional organization of British filmmakers, and was its first President until 2014. In 2008 The Telegraph named him among the most influential people in British culture. In 2017, Greengrass was honoured with a British Film Institute Fellowship. Accepting the Fellowship at the ceremony, he acknowledged that it had been a difficult week for the film industry, on the day that Harvey Weinstein was expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He said the industry had to act and words weren't enough. more…

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